{"id":1874,"date":"2013-04-10T22:33:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T22:33:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"paulmolitortoappearattheduckpondjuly3rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/madison-mallards\/2013\/04\/10\/paulmolitortoappearattheduckpondjuly3rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Molitor to Appear at the &#8220;Duck Pond&#8221; July 3rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"lazyload\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27400%27%20height%3D%27303%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20400%20303%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27400%27%20height%3D%27303%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/stories\/ORGANIZEDIMAGES\/Organization\/Logos\/Home_Talent_Classic_Logo_Small.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"303\" alt=\"Home_Talent_Classic_Logo_Small\" style=\"margin: 3px; 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on Friday July 19th at 7:05 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Mallards season and Package A 7-Game Pack holders will receive tickets for\u00a0the Home Talent Classic.\u00a0\u00a0Tickets will be sold the same as a normal Mallards home game for this event.\u00a0 The Mallards will also show a baseball themed movie on the brand new Zimbrick Honda Video Board following the fireworks display.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Mallards will host their season opener against the Eau Claire Express on May 29th at 7:05 pm at the &#8220;Duck Pond.&#8221;\u00a0 Single-game tickets will go on sale April 27th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\">The Madison Mallards are part of the 16-team Northwoods League.\u00a0 The Northwoods League has more teams, plays more games, and draws more fans than any other Summer Collegiate Baseball League in North America.\u00a0 In 2013, the Northwoods League will celebrate its 20th season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madison, WI &#8211; April 11, 2013. \u00a0The Madison Mallards have announced they will host the inaugural Home Talent Classic game  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Paul Molitor to Appear at the &quot;Duck Pond&quot; 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