and of course Heater had to give his pre game analysis for those at home watching on TV...the only A ball level franchise with a TV contract...and to the 9,016 in paid attendance at a ballpark which seats 7,255...since it's 1st opening day in 2000 they have now had well over 400 consecutive sellouts. LWW
And then the obligatory first pitch from the President of 5/3 bank which funded the building of the field. Here in Dayton we were the largest city in America without a pro baseball team at some level, and the city stalled on building a stadium for decades convinced it would never work. Locally 5/3 bank went from a tiny presence with a couple of local branchs to the dominant bank in town. They built in and people came. LWW
Being that we are next door to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base we get the honor guard in quite often, and they can put on a powerful and touching presentation in silence... followed by the winner of a local contest who did a beautiful rendition of The Star Spangled Banner. LWW