THE
INSIDE
PITCH
Still playing
ball is beauty
of RHWS says
Twins voice
Dick Bremer
Roy Hobbs Baseball
See BREMER, page 6
CLASSICS
TIMELESS
N O V. 1 6 th
Feb. Sunshine
Classic adds
a 3rd week &
65s division
By Glenn Miller
Dick Bremer brings an unusual
perspective to the Roy Hobbs World
Series.
The right-handed pitcher for the
Minnesota Goats has spent the past 33
years broadcasting Minnesota Twins
games.
Since the days when Kent Hrbek
played first and Frank Viola pitched for
the team, Bremer has been in broadcast
booths talking about the Twins, both the
good and the bad.
There were no ex-Twins around
the PDC when Bremer stepped on the
mound on Sunday as the starting pitcher.
“I’m glad they’re not here to criticize,
WEEK 4
Meg Giffen photo
Dick Bremer, from Twins Broadcast booth
to Minnesota Goats are RHWS ‘16.
Roy Hobbs Baseball February’s
Sunshine Classic baseball series has
added a 65s division to its lineup for
2017 and has stretched the event over
3 weekends.
The 65s division will play February
9-12 and will be a full locker room event
with teams guaranteed 6 games over
3½ days.
The 65s will be playing along side the
Father-Son teams, and the entire event is
limited to 16 teams. With 16 teams, one
game a day will be played at Terry Park.
The Sunshine Classic Presidents’ Day
tournament is scheduled for February
16-20, with play starting on the 17th for
two divisions: 50+ and 60+.
The Presidents’ Day event is in its
8th year and is a signature Roy Hobbs
locker room event. It was a total sellout
in 2016. Every team plays 7 games over
See SUNSHINE 65s, page 2
Baseball & Brews Tour
The first annual Roy Hobbs Baseball & Brews brewery
tour will be held Wednesday and Friday nights this week
during the Veterans Division play.
The tours will run from 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. from the
Player Development Complex parking lot.
Cost is $45 per person, and Southwest Florida Brewery
Tours will take 14 customers to 3 breweries for flights and
samples of their beers.
The tours are limited to 14 people; however if 19 or
more sign up 24 hours in advance, SWF Brewery Tours
will add a second van.
Seats will not be sold at the time of the tour … all
reservations must be made in advance.
See Karen Marcinkoski at Roy Hobbs Headquarters or
sign up on-line at www.royhobbs.com/world-series.
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New Jersey
Wonderboysfirst
baseman Lance
Kolsky keeps his
eye on the ball.
Greg Wagner photo.
Thursday Schedule Ready
by 7 pm on Wednesday
There are 27 games scheduled for Wednesday in the Roy
Hobbs World Series. Play should be completed by 5 p.m.
Once those games are over, Roy Hobbs will update
standings and set up the playing schedule for Thursday,
matching teams with similar records but working to avoid
any rematches and/or games between teams from the same
league or area.
The schedule for Thursday’s games will be released no later
than 5 p.m. Wednesday – it will be posted at royhobbs.com,
and recorded on the Roy Hobbs message line: 239.533.7694.
When it comes to Friday’s playoff matchups, the Roy
Hobbs Advisory Committee will meet at approximately 5 p.m.
Thursday at RHWS headquarters to determine the set up and
seeding for the AAAA playoffs. Although all AAAA managers
have been invited to participate on the committee, any
interested managers are welcome to come and be involved too. Eight teams will continue in 4A playoffs. There will be 4
playoff divisions in Classics and 2 in Timeless.
SUNSHINE 65s
From page 1
the 4 days.
The Sunshine Classic Veterans-Masters weekend is February
24-26, with teams guaranteed 5 games.
All Sunshine Classic events are locker room events, with
the locker room included in the team fee.
Roy Hobbs puts an auxiliary locker room into play for these
events, but it is only used after the main locker room is filled,
so it is a first-pay, first-serve event.
The Classic events are capped at 16 teams and/or 256
players, which works out to 16 players per team if 16 teams
register. All games are 7 innings and planned for the Player
Development Clubhouse and Complex, 4301 Edison Avenue –
with 16 teams, there would be one game a day at Terry Park.
In keeping with the Sunshine Classic guidelines that allow
underage players in all divisions, 65s teams may carry as many
as 5 players who must be 60-years-old by the start of play. Any
players turning 65 during the calendar year may pitch.
The cost for each of the events is:
65s & Father-Son: $2600 if paid by January 25; 6-game
guarantee.
Presidents’ Day 50s & 60: $3100 by February 1; 7-game
guarantee.
35s & 45s: $2300 by February 8; 5-game guarantee.
All prices increase after the deadlines.
Contact Rob Giffen at 330.923.3400 or [email protected]
for registration information or to be included on the email list
for this event.
For more information, please go to royhobbs.com/
sunshineclassic.
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RESULTS
Classics Division
All Star Baseball Acad 15, San Antonio Texans 3
Asheville Sox 11, Long Island Yankees 7
Atlanta Heat 9, Youngstown Astros 3
Baltimore Baseball 19, Tampa Bay Sharks 9
Bronx Cardinals 20, Livington Dodgers 7
Cecil’s Margin Service 5, Kenmore Eastern Brewers 4
Cleveland Spiders 22, Midwest Nine 11
Dupage Lugnuts 15, Rhode Island Rockies 9
Kansas City Blues 7, DC Mets 5
Kent Mudhens 5, PSOF Rangers 4
Massachusetts Chiefs 15, Minnesota Goats 4
Michigan Stars 11, DC Dodgers 1
Minnesota Bandits 17, Wrinkles 5
Minnesota Bees 11, Houston Colt .45s 5
NE Red Sox Classics 8, Cincinnati Colt .45s 1
Ohio Classics 12, Nova Scotia Monarchs 11
Philadelphia Brewers 15, Long Island Braves 9
Philadelphia Cutters 12, St. Louis Knights 0
Tallahassee Classics 4, Classic Thunder 3
Tidewater Drillers 19, St. Louis Dodgers 5
Toledo McGuire Group 11, Huntsville Stars 1
Washington Titans 13, Bahama Breeze Bandits 10
Timeless Division
Avengers 12, Toledo McGuire Group 1
Detroits 70s 6, New Jersey Wonderboys 1
New England Red Sox 12, Chicago Spirit 6
San Diego Padres 18, Kent Mudhens 0
South Dakota Rushmores 13, Minnesota Saints 9
Terre Haute Volkers Group 10, Boston Braves 7
Wildcat 14, Key West All-Stars 1
Greg Wagner photo
Padres runner gets to third as Kent 3B Jimmy Hostler jumps for
throw in 70s game.
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STANDINGS
Classics Division
WL Pct. RA
Minnesota Bees
3
0
1.000
8
New England Red Sox Classics3
0
1.000
8
Michigan Stars
3
0
1.000 14
All Star Baseball Academy
3
0
1.000 16
Kansas City Blues
3
0
1.000 18
Washington Titans
3
0
1.000 23
Baltimore Baseball Club
3
0
1.000 33
Youngstown Astros
2
1
.667
17
Huntsville Stars
2
1
.667
19
Cecil’s Margin Service
2
1
.667
23
Atlanta Heat
2
1
.667
24
Long Island Yankees
2
1
.667
24
Rhode Island Rockies
2
1
.667
24
Philadelphia Brewers
2
1
.667
25
Bronx Cardinals
2
1
.667
26
Long Island Braves
2
1
.667
26
Toledo McGuire Group
2
1
.667
27
Wrinkles
21.667 28
Cleveland Spiders
2
1
.667
31
Minnesota Bandits
2
1
.667
31
Minnesota Goats
2
1
.667
31
Houston Colt .45s
2
2
.500
26
San Antonio Texans
2
2
.500
32
Bahama Breeze Bandits
2
2
.500
33
Massachusetts Chiefs
1
2
.333
19
DC Mets
1
2
.333
23
Kent Mudhens
1
2
.333
23
PSOF Rangers
1
2
.333
24
Philadelphia Cutters
1
2
.333
25
Cincinnati Colt .45s
1
2
.333
26
Tidewater Drillers
Livingston Dodgers
Midwest Nine
Ohio Classics
Tallahassee Classics
Asheville Sox
DuPage Lugnuts
Classic Thunder
Kenmore Eastern Brewers
St. Louis Knights
Nova Scotia Monarchs
DC Dodgers
Tampa Bay Sharks
St. Louis Dodgers
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
2
2
2
2
2
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
.333
.333
.333
.333
.333
.333
.250
.000
.000
.000
.000
.000
.000
.000
Timeless Division
Detroit 70s
San Diego Padres
Terre Haute Volkers Group
Avengers
Boston Braves
South Dakota Rushmores
Toledo McGuire Group
New Jersey Wonderboys
Minnesota Saints
Wildcat
Chicago Spirit
New England Red Sox
Key West All Stars
Kent Mudhens
28
29
32
35
36
38
54
23
37
38
42
45
46
56
WL Pct. RA
3
0
1.000
5
3
0
1.000 17
3
0
1.000 22
21.667 24
2
1
.667
24
1
2
.333
20
1
2
.333
27
1
2
.333
29
1
2
.333
31
12.333 31
1
2
.333
40
1
2
.333
41
1
2
.333
46
0
3
.000
38
Contact Roy Hobbs office with any corrections.
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SCHEDULE
Classics Division
10 a.m.
Michigan Stars @ Minnesota Bees, CL-S
PSOF Rangers @ Washington Titans, JB5
Baltimore Baseball @ All Star Baseball Acad, JB4
Massachusetts Chiefs @ Tidewater Drillers, JB6
Minnesota Bandits @ Ohio Classics, PDC3
Long Island Braves @ Nova Scotia Monarchs, PDC4
Midwest Nine @ Tallahassee Classics, TP2
Rhode Island Rockies @ Atlanta Heat, TP3
Long Island Yankees @ DC Mets, TP4
12:30 p.m.
Toledo McGuire Group @ Philadelphia Brewers, CP-S
1:45 p.m.
Cleveland Spiders @ DC Dodgers, CL-S
Kansas City Blues @ St. Louis Knights, JB3
Asheville Sox @ Bronx Cardinals, JB4
Livington Dodgers @ Philadelphia Cutters, JB5
Tampa Bay Sharks @ Kenmore Eastern Brewers, PDC3
Cecil’s Margin Service @ Kent Mudhens, PDC4
St. Louis Dodgers @ Huntsville Stars, PDC5
Wrinkles @ Minnesota Goats, TP-S
Cincinnati Colt .45s @ Classic Thunder, TP2
Youngstown Astros @ NE Red Sox Classics, TP3
Timeless Division
9:30 a.m.
Terre Haute Volkers Group @ Kent Mudhens, CP-S
10 a.m.
Minnesota Saints @ Boston Braves, JB-S
Chicago Spirit @ South Dakota Rushmores, PDC1
Toledo McGuire Group @ New England Red Sox, PDC2
Avengers @ New Jersey Wonderboys, PDC5
Detroits 70s @ Wildcat, TP-S
Greg Wagner photo
Braves runner slides in safely under 70s Kent 3B Lane Green.
1:45 p.m.
San Diego Padres @ Key West All-Stars, JB-S
Thursday’s game schedule will be posted on royhobbs.
com/world-series by 7 p.m. Wednesday evening, and it
will be available on the Roy Hobbs information line at
239.533.7694.
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Pairings Parties will be held
at CATCH 22 & JASON’S DELI
Week 4 Pairings Parties will be held
Thursday evening. Friday’s playoff set
up and pairings will be announced at the
parties.
The CLASSICS Division Pairings Party
will be held at CATCH 22, located at 1400
Colonial Blvd, Fort Myers.
The TIMELESS Party will be held at the
new JASON’S DELI, located on Alico Road
across from Gulf Coast Town Center Mall.
The parties will start at 7 p.m. and will
include finger foods and a cash bar. This
is NOT a dinner or a meal, but rather a
social gathering with snacks.
More details on the party will be
included in Thursday’s Inside Pitch.
CCTV presence grows at RHWS
Greg Wagner photo
Washington Titans runner slides in safely versus 60s Kent Mudhens 2B Scott Ruhe.
Programming for the flat screen television units on wheels
at the Roy Hobbs World Series is growing.
Right now, the units are at the Player Development Complex;
however, we hope to be adding them to the other complexes
where we have a strong enough WiFi signal to operate them.
In the meantime, Roy Hobbs experimented with some
videotaping Sunday of games at PDC and created a series of
vignettes of games and players, which will be carried on the
flat screens on Monday.
More video work will be done by David Robertson on
Monday to add to the library we have.
The broadcasts include this Inside Pitch, scores and
schedules, the vignettes of current action, the updated Roy
Hobbs promotional video and other videos from the world
of baseball.
We hope you enjoy it.
NOTEBOOK
Chiropractor at Centurylink today
Chiropractor Dr. Nicole Bennett will be set up at the
Centurylink Complex near the Stadium-area concession stand
during Wednesday RHWS games.
Dr. Bennett, one of Roy Hobbs’ sponsors for the 2016 event,
will be stationed at the PDC quad tower, along with Roy Hobbs
Massage Therapist Wesley Allen.
Picking up T-Shirts Wednesday
The tournament T-shirt will be available on Wednesday,
from Noon through 6 p.m. for all registered players outside
the Roy Hobbs Store in the screened in patio at the Player
See NOTEBOOK, next page
BREMER
From page 1
analyze my swing and pitching the way we have to on
television,” said Bremer, who is competing in his first World
Series. “It would give them a chance for revenge, I think.”
Bremer, 60, has no illusions about his own ability. He
played at Staples High in Minnesota and described himself
as a “mediocre high school pitcher.” He then tried out for the
team at St. Cloud State, where he was cut.
“Right away,” Bremer said. “I joked later with my baseball
coach, a guy by the name of Jim Stanek. … that he was the first
one to recognize my broadcasting ability.”
Bremer then went to work for the college radio station,
carving out a path to a distinguished career that has led him
to the Minnesota Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
He didn’t play again until about 20 years ago when he
started attending Twins’ fantasy camps. He still treasures the
memory of the first time he stepped on a field, wearing a glove
and throwing a ball instead of taking about other people doing
such things.
“To just stand there and take ground balls and catch most
of them was a lot of fun,” Bremer said.
He said the name of his Roy Hobbs team – Goats– stands
for Greatest Of All Time. He admitted the name could mean
something else.
“The age of the people playing,” Bremer said.
Bremer revels in the chance to play again. “For everybody
here we were all told at one point you can’t play baseball
anymore,” Bremer said.
That came for Bremer at St. Cloud State 40 years ago. There
was no Roy Hobbs World Series then.
“Where they say you can keep playing,” Bremer said. “That’s
the beauty of this.”
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NOTEBOOK
From page 6
Development Complex.
Players will need their RHWS ID card to get their shirts, no
exceptions – No drivers licenses needed.
MVP Awards and Available Upgrades
Every team is asked to name an MVP for the week, and
managers are issued an MVP certificate.
Those should be redeemed at the Roy Hobbs World Series
Headquarters at the Player Development Complex on Fridays
or Saturdays. Samples of the MVP items are on display in the
Roy Hobbs Pro Shop at PDC.
Managers may select an additional MVP – they should see
Karen in the RHWS headquarters office to name the players
and pay the $25 fee before the orders can be placed. If the
player cannot present the certificate in person, the manager
or player should contact Karen by email ([email protected])
for information on how to order their award. Deadline for
basic MVP award orders is Dec. 16, 2016.
This year’s RHWS MVP Award is a MVP-embroidered
hat. Players can choose to wear it out the door or have it
personalized with name, number and team name and it will
be shipped directly to the player in January unless otherwise
requested. Shipping is included within the continental US.
There are 5 potential MVP upgrades that can be seen at RHWS
headquarters.
Results corrections
Please check the posted results and standings each day.
Managers should contact Rob at the Tournament
Headquarters (239.533.7694) with corrections to scores.
That’s the best way to make sure that playoff seedings and
pairings are as accurate as we can make them.
Please help with dugouts
Roy Hobbs Baseball and the grounds crews need your help
in the dugouts.
When your games are over and you are leaving the dugout,
please police it for trash and cups, etc. Your assistance in
cleaning up the dugouts each day will be greatly appreciated.
50/50 raffle
50/50 raffle tickets, to benefit the Roy Hobbs Foundation,
are available each day at the Player Development Complex.
Tickets are $1 apiece or 6 for $5. The drawing will be held in the
patio area at the Player Development Complex at 5 PM Friday.
The Roy Hobbs Foundation was established to raise monies
for research on finding a cure for Leukemia and to assist our
Challenged Athlete friends.
Key first aid items
Two key First Aid items: Drink plenty of fluids while
playing; don’t just wait until the game is over. Water will be
available at the fields.
Second, be sure to stretch and loosen up before playing,
or even re-entering a game.
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HIGHLIGHTS
Classics Division
Cecil’s Margin Service 5, Kenmore Eastern Brewers 4: (Cecil’s) WP:
Gary Keil - 10 IP, 4 Rs, 1 ER, 7 Hs, 4 Ks; Rick Henneberry - 3/5, 2 RBis;
Clyde Beaird - 2/5, 1 RBI, 1 2B; Mike Schroeder - 2/5, 1 RBI; Schroeder
hit a squeeze bunt, walk-off in 10th.
Ohio Classics 12, Nova Scotia Monarchs 11: (Monarchs) Les
Sampson - 4/5, 4 1Bs, Gary Vingeault - 2/4, 2 Rs, Bill Digout - 2/4, 1
1B, 1 2B
Cleveland Spiders 22, Midwest Nine 11: (Spiders) Keith Coleman
2/2; 2R; 3RBI; 1-2B; 1-SAC; 2BB; Tom Alley 2/3; %R !RBI; 1-2B; 4SB
1BB; Tony Angelo 2/3; 4RBI !BB; Don Farley 2/3; 2R; 3RBI; 2-2B; 2BB
Toledo McGuire Group 11, Huntsville Stars 1: (Stars) Hosea Williams
- 3/4
Washington Titans 12, Kent Mudhens 8: Shootout - (Mudhens) John
Catalano - 3/3, 1 R, 2 RBIs; John Berger - 2/2, 2 Rs, BB; Ron Tucker 2/3, 1 RBI
Youngstown Astros 17, DuPage Lugnuts 7: (Astros) WP: Dave
Fairman - 8 IP; Larry Kelly - 3/5; Jim Sams - 3/4, 1 2B; Dave Fairman
- 1 2B, 3 RBIs
Timeless Division
San Diego Padres 17, Wildcat Baseball 0: (Padres) WP: Darryl
Johnson - 0 Rs, 3 Hs, 5 Ks; Dave Mathews - 4/4, 1 2B; Jim Lortz - 3/5,
1 2B
Boston Braves 22, Chicago Spirit 6: (Braves) Frank Maslow - 4/4, 2
2Bs; Hiroshi Tarumi - 3/5, 2 2Bs; Rusty Clukey & Denny Brown - 3/5;
Dale Marker & Will Grable - 2/4
San Diego Padres 18, Kent Mudhens 0: (Padres) WP: Dan
MacDougall - 5 IP, 0 R, 0 ER, 4 H, 2 K, 2 BB.