{"id":258,"date":"2009-05-24T22:28:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T05:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edelalon.com\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2015-12-21T22:29:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T06:29:18","slug":"guam-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edelalon.com\/blog\/guam-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Guam Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skip Rozin had it right when he said, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124225658894317197.html\" target=\"_blank\">Guam &#8212; Baseball Diamond in the Rough<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 I totally feel him on this.\u00a0 Think about all the other island countries that send their players to the MLB.\u00a0 It&#8217;s great that Skip highlighted Guam&#8217;s son, John Hattig, in the Wall Street Journal.\u00a0 I think Skip&#8217;s right.\u00a0 Baseball on Guam can develop.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s puzzling given Guam&#8217;s American ties &#8212; it is a U.S. territory, host to a Naval and an Air Force base &#8212; and its conditions ideal for baseball: perpetual summer and residents who crave the outdoors. Yet despite the fact that Guam has been playing baseball for more than a century, most locals instead choose to pursue outrigger-canoe racing, soccer, and diving in the crystal-clear Pacific waters, or relaxing at day-long barbecues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think the move of the Marines and other forces to Guam will definitely increase the visibility of the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skip Rozin had it right when he said, &#8220;Guam &#8212; Baseball Diamond in the Rough.&#8221;\u00a0 I totally feel him on this.\u00a0 Think about all the other island countries that send their players to the MLB.\u00a0 It&#8217;s great that Skip highlighted Guam&#8217;s son, John Hattig, in the Wall Street Journal.\u00a0 I think Skip&#8217;s right.\u00a0 Baseball on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guam","tag-baseball"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Guam Baseball &#8226; Edel Alon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hello, we have well thought out reading topics on technology, leadership, project management, food, weddings, and tools to help your daily life. 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