{"id":10517,"date":"2012-01-27T13:55:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T17:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=10517"},"modified":"2012-01-27T13:55:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T17:55:26","slug":"baseball-holds-first-pitch-banquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/01\/27\/baseball-holds-first-pitch-banquet\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball holds First Pitch Banquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>((Contributed by Wright State Athletics))<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10519\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-10519\" href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/01\/27\/baseball-holds-first-pitch-banquet\/joe-smith2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10519\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10519\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2012\/01\/Joe-Smith2-260x204.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Joe Smith\" width=\"260\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Raider great Joe Smith was the keynote speaker at the 2012 First Pitch Banquet.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The baseball team held its annual First Pitch Banquet Thursday night at WSU&#8217;s Nutter Center.<\/p>\n<p>After starting the evening with a silent auction of baseball  memorabilia, current Cleveland Indians pitcher and former Raider great  Joe Smith delivered the keynote speech.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The entire\u00a0event was another great night for Raider Baseball,&#8221; WSU  head coach Rob Cooper said.\u00a0 &#8220;It was amazing to have Joe Smith come  back\u00a0to share his story with the Wright State community.\u00a0 It was special  evening for Raider Baseball and Wright State University.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders open the 2012 campaign with four games February 17-19,  taking on Monmouth, Bryant and Canisius at the USA Baseball Complex in  Cary, North Carolina along with a matchup at North Carolina State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;current Cleveland Indians pitcher and former Wright State Raider great Joe Smith delivered the keynote speech&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/01\/27\/baseball-holds-first-pitch-banquet\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":10519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,715,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news","category-special-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10517"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10524,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10517\/revisions\/10524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}