{"id":27222,"date":"2014-01-30T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T19:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=27222"},"modified":"2017-04-11T15:45:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T19:45:05","slug":"wsu-alum-robert-pollards-1978-no-hitter-in-the-news-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/01\/30\/wsu-alum-robert-pollards-1978-no-hitter-in-the-news-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State alum Robert Pollard\u2019s 1978 no-hitter in the news again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27225\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/01\/30\/wsu-alum-robert-pollards-1978-no-hitter-in-the-news-again\/screen-shot-2014-01-29-at-12-57-40-pm-e1391018315760-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27225\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27225\" class=\"size-large wp-image-27225\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2014\/01\/screen-shot-2014-01-29-at-12-57-40-pm-e1391018315760-1-508x303.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The story from The Guardian in 1978 covering Pollard&#8217;s no-hitter.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Robert Pollard, the leader of the Dayton-based indie rock band Guided by Voices, threw a no-hitter as a pitcher on the Wright State baseball team in May 1978.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first no-hitter in the baseball program\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27224\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/01\/30\/wsu-alum-robert-pollards-1978-no-hitter-in-the-news-again\/pollard\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27224\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27224\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27224\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2014\/01\/Pollard-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Pollard<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pollard\u2019s accomplishment resurfaced this week when Wright State digitization specialist Ryan O\u2019Grady, who was in the process of digitizing <em>The Guardian<\/em>, the university\u2019s student newspaper, came across a front-page article about the no-hitter.<\/p>\n<p>A fan of Guided by Voices, O\u2019Grady emailed the photo to a friend, who is also friends with the band. The photo found its way onto\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hardballtalk.nbcsports.com\/2014\/01\/29\/bob-pollard-of-guided-by-voices-threw-a-no-hitter-in-college-ok\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hardball Talk<\/a>, and was then shared across Twitter and other social media platforms within minutes.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Grady and the rest of the Digital Services team at the Paul Laurence Dunbar Library are excited about the attention the photo has received on campus and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/corescholar.libraries.wright.edu\/guardian\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian collection<\/a> in CORE Scholar is currently compose of 126 historic issues and is available in the University Libraries\u2019 online institutional repository, with another 83 issues to be added soon.<\/p>\n<p>Pollard received a B.S.Ed. in integrated business education from Wright State in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Pollard, the leader of the Dayton-based indie rock band Guided by Voices, threw a no-hitter as a pitcher on the Wright State baseball team. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/01\/30\/wsu-alum-robert-pollards-1978-no-hitter-in-the-news-again\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[733,4299,744,725,715,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-alumni-profile","category-education-human-services","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news","category-special-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27222","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=27222"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45040,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27222\/revisions\/45040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}