Squires, local celebrities take up sides to play vintage-rules baseball game

Local celebrities will suit up Sunday to play the Spiegel Grove Squires, the vintage baseball team at the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums.

The game is at 1 p.m. on the lawn behind the Hayes Home and carriage house. Admission is free.

Squires and celebrities to play mixed teams

This year, instead of the celebrities playing against the Squires, the Squires and celebrities will mix into two teams that will play each other.

The teams will play with the rules and style of the game during the Civil War era, when the sport was first rising to popularity. Back then, base ball was spelled with two words, and ballists, as players were called, played bare-handed.

Celebrities to take the field

The celebrities playing with the Squires are

● Carlos Baez, Sr. – Sandusky County engineer:

● Aaron Coonrod – Geen Bay Packaging, Fremont;

● B. J. Duckworth – senior director of operations, YMCA of Sandusky County;

● Father Matt Frisbee – Ppriest at St. Joseph and St. Ann Catholic Churches, Fremont;

● Jason Hawkins – general manager, Comfort Inn and Suites in Fremont;

● Chris Hilton – Sandusky County sheriff;

● Rev. Msgr. Walter Tad Oxley – priest, Saint Michael Catholic Church, Gibsonburg;

● Dean Schneider – assistant chief, Fremont Fire Department;

● Jerry Wasserman – former Spiegel Grove Squires captain; and

●Sonny Workman – Fremont mail carrier and social media influencer.

This article originally appeared on Fremont News-Messenger: Local celebrities to play ball with Squires at Spiegel Grove