Author Archives: Fred Wallace

I’ve been away for a couple of days and am doing my best to catch up on a variety of levels this week. Without the daily exercise of doing this piece while I was away, it created a backlog of st...

Hi, this is Fred Wallace with ” Off the Wire “, brought to you by Hal Wright Chevrolet-Cadillac-GMC-Buick on the Sunset Strip in Owen Sound. It’s that time of the year, the pending r...

Hi, this is Fred Wallace with ” Off the Wire “, brought to you by Hal Wright Chevrolet-Cadillac-GMC-Buick on the Sunset Strip in Owen Sound. On the first warm day of summer this year, I en...

It’s been an interesting summer at the golf courses in our region. At the Jeff Preston Tournament at Saugeen Golf Club, I spoke briefly with Bobby Baun, a multiple Stanley Cup winner with the To...

When the Los Angeles Kings won the Stanley Cup this year, it marked a rare double for Jeff Carter & Drew Doughty. By winning Olympic Gold Medals earlier in Men’s Hockey for Canada at the Win...

We’re approaching a significant deadline. On Friday, voting will cease in the latest round of balloting for the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame The survivors will advance to the final stage of v...

Hi, this is Fred Wallace with ” Off the Wire “, brought to you by Hal Wright Chevrolet-Cadillac-GMC-Buick on the Sunset Strip in Owen Sound. Last week I was talking about the beer machines...

Hi, this is Fred Wallace with ” Off the Wire “, brought to you by Hal Wright Chevrolet-Cadillac-GMC-Buick on the Sunset Strip in Owen Sound. One of the all time great ball games I ever saw...

I’ve known Keith Peer for a long time. First, as a star centre in high school football, as a goaltender for the Founders Cup Owen Sound Van Dolder Flying Dutchmen in 1993, as a radio announcer. ...

Target Field apparently is the first major league ball park to serve beer……. from a vending machine. The self-serve beer station debuted earlier this year when the Minnesota Twins hosted t...