Local celebrities batter up with vintage base ball team at Hayes Presidential

Local celebrities will suit up and play the Spiegel Grove Squires, the vintage base ball team at the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums, on Sunday, June 14.

The match is at 1 p.m. on the lawn behind the Hayes Home. Admission is free. 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.

The celebrities playing with the Squires are:

• Carlos Baez, Sr. – Sandusky County engineer
• Shawn Brickner – battalion chief, Fremont City Fire Department
• Father Matt Frisbee – priest at St. Joseph and St. Ann Catholic Churches, Fremont
• Chris Hilton – Sandusky County sheriff
• Brynn Hoffman – Gibsonburg Golden Bears softball team
• Tyler Kneeskern – President/CEO, Chamber of Commerce of Sandusky County
• Joshua Matz – principal, Otis Elementary School
• Ed McClain – self-advocacy and Special Olympics coordinator, Sandusky County Board of Developmental Disabilities
• Scott Miller – Sandusky County commissioner
• Jon Peters – “Big Nut” Ohio State University superfan
• Jeremiah Wagner – CEO, YMCA of Sandusky County

The 2026 Squires are:

• Earl “Blackjack” Bargerstock
• Buck “Bucky” Byers
• Jonathan “Ballpark” Franks
• ·       John M. “Fly” Frey
• Zane “Sandals” Frey
• Chad “Fingers” Kinsey
• Guy “Hook” Kohlenberg
• Cory “Constitution” Lunsford
• Kylie “The Amendment” Lunsford
• Chris “Beast” Mayle
• Kyle “5-0” Mayle
• Aaron “Radar” Meade
• Devin “Devo” Pollick
• Ryan “Slippery Hands” Purkey
• Joshua “Speedy” Schmidt
• Aaron “Skinny” Smith
• Kyle “Doc” Spriggs
• Jerry “The Rookie” Stout
• Justin “Numbers” Ward
• Randy “Bat” Ward
• Kent Weaver
• Ryan “Dream” Weaver
• Tatum Dietrich, scorekeeper
• Gary “The Ump” Kaltenbach, announcer

The Squires are sponsored by Whirlpool Corp. 

Hayes Presidential is America’s first presidential library and the forerunner of the federal presidential library system. It is partially funded by the state of Ohio and affiliated with the Ohio History Connection. Hayes Presidential is located at Spiegel Grove on Buckland Avenue.

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