Episode 011 - The 46th Annual Old Timers Exhibition!

Northwoods Baseball Sleep Radio - Fake Baseball for Sleeping

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4.8 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 139 minutes

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It's a perfect night for a ballgame - especially if it's the 46th Annual Old Timers Exhibition! This year the Big Rapids Timbers host the Cadillac Cars as the stars of yesteryear face off in this sleepy exhibition game. It's a star-studded event with luminaries such as Granny Houser, "Oil Can" Ramirez, Buster Malone, and many more. SleepBaseball.com Support the show, if you'd like to: Our Patreon Page Support the show

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0:00.0	You're drifting off with WSLP AM, Big Rapids.
0:18.2	W.S.L.E. Please faithful.
0:26.6	Ooh. Woo. The Northwoods Baseball Radio Network presents Sleep Baseball.
0:46.9	Tonight, from Evergreen Field in Big Rapids, Michigan,
0:52.9	it's the 47th annual Old Timers Exhibition.
1:00.0	And now your host, Wally McCarthy. The Good evening, friends.
1:46.4	Wally McCarthy and producer Phil reporting.
1:52.8	And we are delighted to be back home in Big Rapids after our Wisconsin road trip, tagging along with the Manistee Eagles.
2:06.6	We've got a real treat this evening as we present the 47th annual Old Timers exhibition game.
2:15.6	As our favorite stars of yesteryear suit up and entertain the crowd.
2:22.7	It is always a fan favorite.
2:28.6	This year it's the Big Rapids Timbers Old Timbers versus the Old Timbers from the Cadillac cars.
2:39.6	And some notes about the Old Timers game.
2:45.6	Tonight's game is a seven-inning exhibition.
2:50.2	And to be eligible to play in an old-timers exhibition in our league,
2:55.6	players must have been retired for a minimum of 10 years.
3:03.6	And there are a lot of great faces we haven't seen for quite some time here tonight.
3:13.3	And it is a perfect night for a ball game.
3:19.3	72 degrees at game time and not a cloud in the sky.
3:33.0	Let's take a look at the starting nine for the visiting Cadillac cars old timers.
3:49.6	Leading off and playing first base, Pontiac Gleason.
3:54.6	Gleason hung up his spikes 23 years ago and is now the owner of Gleleason Pontiac of Cadillac, Michigan.
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