{"id":6070,"date":"2013-05-13T08:43:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T12:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=6070"},"modified":"2013-05-13T08:43:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T12:43:48","slug":"dr-john-walker-91-plays-baseball-in-cuba-and-gives-away-a-lot-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2013\/05\/13\/dr-john-walker-91-plays-baseball-in-cuba-and-gives-away-a-lot-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. John Walker \u201991 &#8211; plays baseball in Cuba and gives away a lot more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr. John Walker \u201991<\/strong> is a Crawfordsville dentist.\u00a0 He is also a baseball fan and pitched for Wabash baseball.\u00a0 He is also a traveler.\u00a0 In April he combined his love of baseball with a trip to Cuba through the Cuban Sports Ministry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/05\/walker-john-baseball.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6071 aligncenter\" title=\"walker john baseball\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/05\/walker-john-baseball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They played games with Cuban all-star teams in villages and in Havana.\u00a0 They shared their equipment with the opposing teams, and\u00a0gave away baseballs, bats, and gloves.\u00a0 They also gave away soap and toothpaste, which is a limited luxury for the citizens of Cuba.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalreview.com\/sports\/article_d538642a-b91b-11e2-a7d9-0019bb2963f4.html\">Click here <\/a>to read the complete story in the <em>Journal Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Next stop for Dr.\u00a0Walker and his team:\u00a0a doubleheader\u00a0at San Quentin Prison in California \u2013\u00a0another story we\u2019d like to hear about!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. John Walker \u201991 is a Crawfordsville dentist.\u00a0 He is also a baseball fan and pitched for Wabash baseball.\u00a0 He is also a traveler.\u00a0 In April he combined his love of baseball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}