{"id":7631,"date":"2024-06-14T16:19:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T20:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localtalkweekly.com\/?p=7631"},"modified":"2024-06-14T16:19:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T20:19:38","slug":"saving-baseball-in-the-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localtalkweekly.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/14\/saving-baseball-in-the-hood\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Baseball In The Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>STORY &amp; PHOTOS BY THOMAS ELLIS II<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This past weekend, there was a lot of baseball for the kids in Ivy Hill, East Orange, and the Newark South Ward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ivy Hill Yankees T-Ball team played East Orange on Friday night at Columbia Field off of 4th Avenue. It was an awesome game, and for the Yankee players it was their first time playing away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/localtalkweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240608_102051-338x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/localtalkweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240608_102051-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/localtalkweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240608_102051-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/localtalkweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240608_102051-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/localtalkweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240608_102051-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/localtalkweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240608_102051-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Saturday, the Ivy Hill Mets played the Jackie Robinson team in Newark\u2019s South Ward at 10 am. The game started out with Pittsburgh Crawfords and ended with the second game the KC Monarch played the Ivy Hill Yankees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a fun-filled weekend for all the players, the parents and coaches. The main objective is keeping baseball alive in the Hood. Over the past few years, it has been dying out in the community, but the goal of the coaches from Ivy Hill, East Orange, the South Ward, and Elizabeth is to keep pumping oxygen into the league and keeping it alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Father&#8217;s Day Softball Game and Cookout for the T Ball players of East Orange, Ivy Hill, and Jackie Robinson players will start at Noon, with fathers playing in the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STORY &amp; PHOTOS BY THOMAS ELLIS II This past weekend, there was a lot of baseball for the kids in Ivy Hill, East Orange, and the Newark South Ward. 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