Spiegel Grove Squires to play three local games in July
The Spiegel Grove Squires, the vintage base ball team at the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums, will have two home games and a nearby away game in July .
The Squires will play the Ottawa County Historical Society at 2 p.m. on Sunday, July 5, at James Park in Marblehead.
The Squires then return home to play games on the lawn behind the Hayes Home at 1 p.m. Sunday, July 12, against the Early Risers BBC and at 1 p.m. Sunday, July 26, against the Canal Fulton Mules.
Admission to the games is free. Refreshments will be available at the home games.
The Squires bring to life the sport when it became organized with standard rules of play for clubs. Back then, base ball was spelled with two words.
The Squires are volunteers who have studied and learned the methods of play used in the 1860s, including playing bare-handed. Players are called ballists, and they wear period-style uniforms and adopt the language of 19th-century base ball during their matches, as games were called during the 1860s.
The Squires are sponsored by Whirlpool Corp.
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
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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