{"id":37288,"date":"2015-06-24T10:48:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T14:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=37288"},"modified":"2015-06-24T10:48:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T14:48:10","slug":"wright-state-student-inspiration-for-springboros-miracle-league-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/06\/24\/wright-state-student-inspiration-for-springboros-miracle-league-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State student inspiration for Springboro\u2019s Miracle League field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>There is a reason it\u2019s called the Miracle League baseball field. The transformation of children and young adults with disabilities who play on the diamond in Springboro is truly a miracle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s magical to see their faces,\u201d said Sprinboro native William Crotty, a Wright State University film student with cerebral palsy who was the inspiration for the field. \u201cWhen they\u2019re out there, they are in the big leagues. It\u2019s really cool to see something they\u2019ve always wanted to do but never could. And they\u2019re playing like Pete Rose \u2014 110 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crotty\u2019s family got the ball rolling on the Miracle League Field of Warren County and Greater Dayton, kicking off a $1 million fundraising effort that included support from the Cincinnati Reds, YMCA, Warren County Developmental Disabilities and private donors.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/news\/local\/wsu-student-inspiration-for-springboros-miracle-le\/nmhwX\/\" target=\"_blank\">daytondailynews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt There is a reason it\u2019s called the Miracle League baseball field. The transformation of children and young adults with disabilities who play on the diamond in Springboro is truly a miracle. \u201cIt\u2019s magical to see their faces,\u201d said Sprinboro &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/06\/24\/wright-state-student-inspiration-for-springboros-miracle-league-field\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":37079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37288","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\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37289,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37288\/revisions\/37289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}