RICH HILL, LOU MERLONI, JAKE PEAVY TO APPEAR AT 32ND ANNUAL OLDTIME BASEBALL GAME THURSDAY, AUGUST 20 AT ST. PETER’S FIELD

CAMBRIDGE’S ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF BASEBALL WILL BE PLAYED FOR THE BOSTON HOME IN RECOGNITION OF PEOPLE WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

RED SOX EXECUTIVE GUS QUATTLEBAUM RETURNS AS HONORARY COACH

Former Red Sox players Rich Hill, Lou Merloni and Jake Peavy are lined up to take part in the 32nd annual Abbot Financial Management Oldtime Baseball

Game on Thursday, August 20 at St. Peter’s Field in Cambridge. The pregame program begins at 7 p.m.

It will be the first time in the history of the Oldtime Baseball Game that three former Red Sox players are featured.

The Oldtime Baseball Game has again partnered with The Boston Home, a non-profit residence and national resource for adults with advanced neurological disorders, primarily multiple sclerosis. Longtime Red Sox vice president of scouting, development and integration Gus Quattlebaum, who was diagnosed with primary progressive MS in 2021, returns in 2026 as an honorary coach.

The Oldtime Baseball Game includes college and high school players from throughout Greater Boston and beyond, all of them decked out in colorful throwback uniforms that represent virtually every era in baseball history, from the 1890 Boston Beaneaters to the 1969 Seattle Pilots.

Rich Hill, a left-hander who played for a record 14 teams during his 21 seasons in the big leagues from 2005 to 2025, will be making his second appearance at the game. He stepped in last year as a last-minute replacement for former Red Sox all-purpose All-Star Brock Holt after the game was delayed a day by rain. Given that last year Hill had pitched in the big leagues just there weeks earlier, his presence generated lots of media attention and resulted in an overflow crowd turning out at St. Peter’s Field. A native of Milton, Mass., Hill was 90-76 lifetime, with a 4.02 ERA.

Infielder Lou Merloni, a native of Framingham, Mass., played nine seasons in the big leagues, six of them with the Red Sox. A .271 career hitter, Merloni became the third Italian-American raised in the Boston area to hit a home run in his first Fenway Park at-bat when he took Kansas City Royals lefty José Rosado over The Green Monster on May 15, 1998. (The others were Tony Conigliaro in 1964 and Eddie Pellagrini in 1946. Pellagrini, who died in 2006, was the longtime baseball coach at Boston College and, from 2000 to 2002, a coach in the Oldtime Baseball Game.) Merloni has gone on to a stellar media career, including his work as an analyst for Red Sox games on NESN. This will be his 13th appearance at the Oldtime Baseball Game. He was the 2022 recipient of the annual Greg Montalbano Award, named after the late Northeastern University pitcher and Red Sox minor-league prospect who appeared in the game in 1997 and ’98. The award is presented to a former participant who exemplifies Montalbano’s spirit, competitiveness and good nature.

Right-hander Jake Peavy will be making his first appearance at the game. He won the National League Cy Young Award in 2007 as a member of the San Diego Padres (19-6 with a National League-best 2.54 ERA), and was 152-126 with a 3.63 ERA during his 15 seasons in the big leagues. Peavy pitched parts of two seasons with the Red Sox and was a member of Boston’s 2013 World Series championship team. He later made headlines when he purchased one of the Duck Boats from the Sox’ championship rolling rally and had it shipped to his home in Alabama. Peavy has made appearances for the Savannah Bananas barnstorming baseball team.

Lindsay Berra, a former University of North Carolina softball player and granddaughter of the late Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra, returns as a coach.

The game will also feature two members of the 2026 Cambridge Rindge & Latin baseball team that made it to the semifinals in the MIAA Division 1 baseball tournament. Left-hander Oliver Henke is bound for Swarthmore College and first baseman Stefan Alexandrov is moving on to Wheaton College, but not before they don the Oldtime Baseball Game’s throwback uniforms to play one more game at their home ballpark.

The Oldtime Baseball Game was founded in 1994. Replica throwback uniforms were added in 1998. Used just once a year, they include such long-ago teams as the St. Louis Browns, Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Athletics. Negro Leagues uniforms include the Kansas City Monarchs, Detroit Stars and Cleveland Buckeyes. Teams from the 20th century minor leagues include the Hollywood Stars, Wichita Falls Spudders and Roswell Rockets.

The game includes two authentic Red Sox uniforms that were worn in the big leagues by the late Jim Corsi, who played in the Oldtime Baseball Game in 2002 and ’03. For the fifth straight year Corsi’s son, Joey, will play in the Oldtime Baseball Game wearing one of his father’s uniforms.

Admission to the Oldtime Baseball Game is free. Fans are asked to bring a beach blanket or chair and camp out along the foul lines, as it is the crowd that makes the game so electric. Fans can look forward to enjoying a Wahlburger at the game as Dorchester native Paul Wahlberg and his team of A&E TV series fame provide concessions.

In the event of rain, the game will be played on Friday, August 21 at 7 p.m.