{"id":178930,"date":"2024-05-08T03:27:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T08:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=178930"},"modified":"2024-05-08T03:27:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T08:27:14","slug":"play-ball-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/05\/08\/play-ball-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Play ball!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"628\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Bill-Tumbleson-first-pitch-5-7-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-178931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Bill-Tumbleson-first-pitch-5-7-2024.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Bill-Tumbleson-first-pitch-5-7-2024-525x600.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wren Ballpark officially opened their summer season on Sunday, May 5, at the ballpark.&nbsp; After an opening prayer and the national anthem, the ceremonial first pitch was thrown out by long time Wren resident, Bill Tumbleson.&nbsp; Bill played baseball for the Wren Eagles in the 1950&#8217;s and has been on the village&nbsp;council for many years.&nbsp; In 1971, he started the first fast pitch travel softball team to ever play in Wren.&nbsp; It didn\u2019t take long for Wren to find a league and begin winning league championships. Tumbleson was instrumental in expanding the ballpark to service the young women of the community, a tradition that still lives on today.&nbsp;The ballpark currently has eight teams for the summer season and over 100 players participating.<em> Photo submitted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wren Ballpark officially opened their summer season on Sunday, May 5, at the ballpark.&nbsp; After an opening prayer and the national anthem, the ceremonial first pitch was thrown out by long time Wren resident, Bill Tumbleson.&nbsp; Bill played baseball for the Wren Eagles in the 1950&#8217;s and has been on the village&nbsp;council for many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 22:40:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178984,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178930\/revisions\/178984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}