Page 8 - Lake Front News May 2019

‘Boys of Summer’ Return For Vintage Base Ball
Milan
Birthplace of Thomas A. Edison
2019 Events
Cruisin’ On The Square - May through September come and see classic cars displayed on the Public Square every Tuesday from 5 pm to 8 pm. For more on this event, go to the Cruise Milan website.
Mid-Summers Antique Festival
- This annual event takes place the second Sunday of July from 8-4 pm on the Village Square. For additional information please contact Pam Crosby at 419.499.4001.
Milan Melon Festival - Join the fun August 31st - September 2, 2019 for the 61st annual festival.
Holidays in the Village - Each December, come and celebrate the season while viewing the wonderful holiday
trees, wreaths and more that community businesses and organizations decorate.
Breakfast • Lunch • Dinner Daily Specials
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Furniture, Clocks, Glassware, China, Toys, Dolls and More!
We do estate sales
Sights & Sounds of Edison
21 S. Main St., Milan (419) 357-3092 We Collect Anything Edison Custom Made Wood Horns
for Phonographs Repairs & General Line of Antiques
Milan Inn-Tiques
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As opening day for major league baseball teams has arrived, the Spiegel Grove Squires are getting ready for another season of the vintage version of the sport.
The Squires, the vintage
base ball team at the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums, bring to life the sport in the 1860s, when it became organized with standard rules of play for clubs. Back then, base ball
A Spiegel Grove Squire runs to first base after hitting the ball. In vintage terms, his teammates yell “Leg it!”
was spelled with two words. Members of the Spiegel Grove Squires are volunteers. They 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 team has a full
Home games take place
on the lawn behind the
Hayes Home. The Squires
are sponsored by Wright Sunday, July 14 – 1 p.m.
schedule, including three home games at Spiegel Grove, the grounds of the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums. Admission to home games is free.
local celebrities at home. This is the annual celebrity all-star game.
Saturday, June 22, and Sunday, June 23 – Times TBA. At the Frankenmuth Tournament at River Place Shops in Frankenmuth, Michigan.
German Village 9 at Ohio
Village in Columbus. Sunday, Aug. 18 – 2 p.m. vs. the Canton Cornshuckers
at home.
Sunday, Aug. 25 – 2 p.m.
vs. the Canal Dover Red
Legs at home.
Saturday, Sept. 28 – 10
a.m. at the Sauder Village Cup hosted by Sauder Village in Archbold.
The Hayes Presidential Library & Museums is located at Spiegel Grove at the corner of Hayes and Buckland avenues.
For information, call 419-332-2081, or visit rbhayes.org. Like HPLM on Facebook at fb.me/ rbhayespres.
Leather Works.
Sunday, May 5- 1 and 4 p.m.
at the Base Ball Festival hosted by the Eastwood Iron Horses at Caesar’s Creek Pioneer Village in Waynesville, Ohio.
Sunday, May 26 – 1p.m. vs. the Canal Dover Red Legs at the Canal Fulton Festival in Dover, Ohio.
Sunday, June 9 - 2 p.m. vs.
vs. the Rochester Grangers at Van Hoosen Farm in Rochester Hills, Michigan.
Sunday, July 28 – 11 a.m. at the Carnation Cup Tournament hosted by the Alliance Crossing Rails at Glamorgan Castle in Alliance, Ohio.
Sunday, Aug. 11 – Noon and 1:30 p.m. vs. the Ohio Village Muffins and
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