Ron Myers

Ron graduated from Central Michigan University in 1980 with a B.S. in Communications. After graduation Ron moved to Lakeland, FL where he started his career as an intern with the Lakeland Tigers. By 1993 Ron had risen to Vice President and General Manager of the team. The same year, he accepted a position with Minor League Baseball, which consisted of 217 member clubs that operated in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Here he was selected to create and pioneer the first in-house Marketing Department.

After his time with Minor League Baseball, Ron was appointed as Vice President of Marketing and Operations for the Tampa Bay Storm in the Arena Football League. Following his time in Arena Football, Ron became the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Verizon Classic Senior PGA Tour in Tampa.

He then made a foray into the world of basketball - he was selected by the NBA to become President and General Manager of the Mobile Revelers of the National Basketball Development League.

After some time in Basketball, Ron decided to move back to his first love, baseball, as the Director of Corporate Sales for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

In making the circle complete, he came back to Lakeland in November of 2003 to take on his current role of Director of Florida Operations for the Detroit Tigers.