{"id":37625,"date":"2015-08-05T09:23:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T13:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=37625"},"modified":"2022-09-29T12:32:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:32:37","slug":"he-built-it-they-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/08\/05\/he-built-it-they-came\/","title":{"rendered":"He built it, they came"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s written all over their faces\u2014the thrill of it. Their daily world of limits, obstacles and hurdles has suddenly melted away and been replaced by a delicious universe of possibility and hope.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the 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 says 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\u2014110 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytoncitypaper.com\/he-built-it-they-came\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dayton City Paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt It\u2019s written all over their faces\u2014the thrill of it. Their daily world of limits, obstacles and hurdles has suddenly melted away and been replaced by a delicious universe of possibility and hope. That\u2019s the reason it\u2019s called the Miracle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/08\/05\/he-built-it-they-came\/\" 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":[4859,747,715,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fine-and-performing-arts","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37625","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=37625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130461,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37625\/revisions\/130461"}],"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=37625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}