{"id":2033,"date":"2011-04-29T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T19:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2011-04-29T11:00:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T19:00:18","slug":"mlb-sends-ambassadors-to-japan-south-africa-and-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/mlb-sends-ambassadors-to-japan-south-africa-and-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Sends Ambassadors to Japan, South Africa, and New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fielder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2034\" title=\"fielder\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fielder-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fielder-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fielder-342x228.jpg 342w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/fielder.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Major League Baseball is attempting to spread its wings above and beyond  the United States. The MLB is reaching out to other countries and  beginning to educate them about baseball and show them why the United  states loves it. They now have a Major League Baseball International  Ambassador Program in which off season players travel across the globe  spreading the word about baseball. These ambassadors hold clinics and  work with kids teaching them the fundamental skills of the game. They  get to bring a small piece of American culture with them to other  countries.<\/p>\n<p>This year Prince Fielder, Curtis Granderson. and C.J. Wilson traveled  abroad as MLB ambassadors. Fielder went to Japan, Granderson went to New  Zealand and Wilson went to South Africa. The highlights of their recent  trips will be shown this week on FOX&#8217;s &#8220;This Week in Baseball&#8221; on  Saturday. Be sure to tune in for some great scenes and great fun as  Fielders dons sumo gear and practices with the professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Baseball is attempting to spread its wings above and beyond the United States. The MLB is reaching out to other countries and beginning to educate them about baseball and show them why the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[1161,1166,1165,1167,828,940,1163,1164,1162],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","category-sports-recreation","tag-ambassador","tag-c-j-wilson","tag-curtis-granderson","tag-fox","tag-japan","tag-mlb","tag-new-zealand","tag-prince-fielder","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2036,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions\/2036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}