{"id":4467,"date":"2013-04-22T07:51:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T07:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everhear.wpengine.com\/?p=4467"},"modified":"2013-04-22T07:51:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T07:51:36","slug":"mlb-supporting-autism-awarenss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/mlb-supporting-autism-awarenss\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Supporting Autism Awarenss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tMajor League Baseball is teaming up with Autism Speaks, an autism science and advocacy organization, in a league-wide effort to recognize Autism Awareness Month in April. All 30 MLB Clubs are raising awareness for the disorder during one home game in April, or on another date during the regular season. Many of the MLB Autism Awareness games throughout the league will provide special opportunities and a safe, friendly environment for families and individuals affected by autism.<\/p>\n<p>Many Clubs will recognize local families during pre-game ceremonies, and members of the autism community will participate in various traditional baseball activities, including throwing out the first pitch, singing the National Anthem, announcing \u201cPlay Ball!,\u201d singing \u201cTake Me Out to the Ballgame,\u201d or performing \u201cGod Bless America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/everhear.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/boy-fan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4505\" alt=\"boy-fan\" src=\"http:\/\/everhear.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/boy-fan-300x155.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAutism affects many of our fans and members of the baseball family,\u201d said Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig. \u201cMany Clubs are longstanding supporters of the autism community. As an extension of those efforts, Major League Baseball is very proud to educate our fans through the MLB Autism Awareness initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information about MLB Autism Awareness and to check on respective Club dates commemorating the initiative, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlbcommunity.org\/\">MLBCommunity.org<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Baseball is teaming up with Autism Speaks, an autism science and advocacy organization, in a league-wide effort to recognize Autism Awareness Month in April. All 30 MLB Clubs are raising awareness for the disorder during one home game in April, or on another date during the regular season. Many of the MLB Autism&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","schema":"","fname":"","lname":"","position":"","credentials":"","placeID":"","no_match":false,"name":"","company":"","review":"","address":"","city":"","state":"","zip":"","lat":"","lng":"","phone1":"","phone2":"","fax":"","mon1":"","mon2":"","tue1":"","tue2":"","wed1":"","wed2":"","thu1":"","thu2":"","fri1":"","fri2":"","sat1":"","sat2":"","sun1":"","sun2":"","hours-note":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[103,1017,1018,1019],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}