{"id":420,"date":"2012-05-21T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/2012\/05\/21\/biking-for-baseball\/"},"modified":"2013-01-05T00:31:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T00:31:37","slug":"biking-for-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wabikes.org\/index.php\/2012\/05\/21\/biking-for-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Biking for Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-NS5Ptwj0LRU\/T4yBlLyojvI\/AAAAAAAAAtg\/ADKLvLWJ2jY\/s1600\/Biking+for+Baseball.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-NS5Ptwj0LRU\/T4yBlLyojvI\/AAAAAAAAAtg\/ADKLvLWJ2jY\/s320\/Biking+for+Baseball.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: \"Arial\",\"sans-serif\"; font-size: small;\">Meet Steve Lunn, Chase Higgins and Adam Kremers.\u00a0 These three friends, along with pals Rex Roberts and Tim Sherman, are the Biking for Baseball team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: \"Arial\",\"sans-serif\"; font-size: small;\">Biking for Baseball combines three interests that the five friends share\u2014biking, baseball, and mentoring youth\u2014into an ambitious goal.\u00a0 The team plans to bike to every Major League ballpark for a home game while raising awareness and funds for local Big Brothers Big Sisters.<o:p><\/o:p>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: \"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\">They kicked off their tour at the Seattle Mariners\u2019 season opener on April 13, which is when they dropped by the Bicycle Alliance office to say hello.\u00a0 They have since pedaled down the West Coast and made their way across the Rockies to Denver.\u00a0 The tour will wrap up on September 21 and 11,000 miles later in Boston.<o:p><\/o:p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: \"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">You can check out their route, follow their progress throughout the summer, and support their effort at <a href=\"http:\/\/bikingforbaseball.org\/\">bikingforbaseball.org<\/a>.<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Steve Lunn, Chase Higgins and Adam Kremers.\u00a0 These three friends, along with pals Rex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[40,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-adventure","category-people"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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