{"id":1989,"date":"2011-01-27T16:24:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T21:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2011-01-27T16:31:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T21:31:39","slug":"bavasi-a-hit-at-wsu-first-pitch-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/01\/27\/bavasi-a-hit-at-wsu-first-pitch-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Bavasi a \u2018hit\u2019 at WSU\u2019s First Pitch dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>((excerpt))<\/p>\n<p>One of the baseball highlights of my life &#8211; and I\u2019m fortunate to have  many baseball blessings every year &#8211; is the annual First Pitch Baseball  Dinner at Wright State University.<\/p>\n<p>It is a fund-raising event for the Wright State baseball team and it  is put together by coach Rob Cooper &#8211; and it is first class in every  sense of the words first and class. So is Cooper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/blogs\/content\/shared-gen\/blogs\/dayton\/cincinnatireds\/entries\/2011\/01\/27\/bavasi_a_hit_at_wsus_first_pit.html?cxtype=feedbot\">DaytonDailyNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1989 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/01\/27\/bavasi-a-hit-at-wsu-first-pitch-dinner\/bavasiatpodium\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"126\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2011\/01\/BavasiAtPodium-140x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/01\/27\/bavasi-a-hit-at-wsu-first-pitch-dinner\/firstpitchbavasi\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"126\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2011\/01\/FirstPitchBavasi-140x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Cincinnati Reds vice-president of scouting addresses the room at Wright State&#039;s 2011 First Pitch Banquet.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1992\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1992'>\n\t\t\t\tCincinnati Reds vice-president of scouting addresses the room at Wright State&#8217;s 2011 First Pitch Banquet.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/01\/27\/bavasi-a-hit-at-wsu-first-pitch-dinner\/firstpitchbavasimccoy\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"126\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2011\/01\/FirstPitchBavasiMcCoy-140x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Reds vice-president of scouting Bill Bavasi mingles with Hall of Fame Baseball writer Hal McCoy (left).\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1993\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1993'>\n\t\t\t\tReds vice-president of scouting Bill Bavasi mingles with Hall of Fame Baseball writer Hal McCoy (left).\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/01\/27\/bavasi-a-hit-at-wsu-first-pitch-dinner\/firstpitchcoachcooper\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"126\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2011\/01\/FirstPitchCoachCooper-140x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Wright State Head Baseball Coach Rob Cooper.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1994\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1994'>\n\t\t\t\tWright State Head Baseball Coach Rob Cooper.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/01\/27\/bavasi-a-hit-at-wsu-first-pitch-dinner\/firstpitchgrant\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"126\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2011\/01\/FirstPitchGrant-140x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Wright State Director of Athletics Bob Grant\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1995\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1995'>\n\t\t\t\tWright State Director of Athletics Bob Grant\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>((excerpt)) One of the baseball highlights of my life &#8211; and I\u2019m fortunate to have many baseball blessings every year &#8211; is the annual First Pitch Baseball Dinner at Wright State University. It is a fund-raising event for the Wright &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/01\/27\/bavasi-a-hit-at-wsu-first-pitch-dinner\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[727,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}