{"id":78652,"date":"2016-08-05T07:25:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T12:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=78652"},"modified":"2016-08-05T07:25:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T12:25:47","slug":"wren-to-honor-1st-wiffleball-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/08\/05\/wren-to-honor-1st-wiffleball-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Wren to honor 1st Wiffleball champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WREN &#8212; Twenty-five years ago the first Wiffleball Tournament was staged at Wrenway Park in downtown Wren. It was composed of 12 teams, including the very first winners: the Barn Rats.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the \u201cRats\u201d lived within a short distance of each other. At a young age, they played around pole lights and other obstacles at the Hill Farm on Piqua Road in rural Decatur, Indiana. Now, 25 years later they still live but a short distance from each other.<\/p>\n<p>The original team consisted of Jim Hill, Tom Hill, Mark Slusher, Tony Slusher, Neal Slusher, Chad Brunner, Ted Brunner, and Larry Brunner.<\/p>\n<p>The first tournament was much different than the tournament of today. There were no lights, no confetti, no professional lighting and sound.<\/p>\n<p>The Wiffleball tournament was the brainstorm of Jamey Davis (1968-2010, who would be very excited and proud of the tournament\u2019s longevity.<\/p>\n<p>The Barn Rats will be honored in the Wren Homecoming Parade at 4 p.m. on Saturday, August 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information WREN &#8212; Twenty-five years ago the first Wiffleball Tournament was staged at Wrenway Park in downtown Wren. It was composed of 12 teams, including the very first winners: the Barn Rats. Most of the \u201cRats\u201d lived within a short distance of each other. At a young age, they played around pole lights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 11:57:09","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\/78652","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=78652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}