Frozen Apples

Apples Join Polar Bear Club
2008 Training Begins

Burbaby.com
Nashville, TN

With the calender now reading 2008, the Apples began their off season training regime in style by joining the world renowned Polar Bear Club.

AGFHOF Don Bernitt and starting Apple Outfielder Patty Pender were joined by Pender's high powered agent Barbara Woehnker and team batboy Hayden Todd as they took on the wintry elements of New Years Day and went for a swim in Nashville's Percy Priest Lake as part of a worldwide Jan. 1 tradition know as the Polar Bear Club.

With gusting winds that had the wind chill factor at a freezing 15 degrees the Apples took the plunge as they dove into the almost as cold 36 degree waters of Percy Priest lake.

When asked to comment on the polar plunge taken by the Apples, Dan Bernitt the father of Don, who was in Nashville to celebrate the New Year said that after some forty plus years the time has finally come for DNA testing. "There's no way that stupid SOB shares my genes" said the elder Bernitt as he sat by the roaring bonfire and sipped hot chocolate with the other onlookers in attendance.

A new year is here and perhaps another Apple tradition has been started, so here is your invitation to join the Apples next Jan. 1st for the second annual Apple Polar Bear plunge.

Have a Great 2008 and how of course... How bout them Apples!!

See photos below or on page B1 of the Tennessean. Also visit 'tennessean.com' for video of the days events

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