{"id":6573,"date":"2013-09-26T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=6573"},"modified":"2013-09-26T07:00:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T11:00:40","slug":"bill-boone-60-local-sports-historian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2013\/09\/26\/bill-boone-60-local-sports-historian\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Boone &#039;60 &#8211; local sports historian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bill Boone \u201860<\/strong> is\u00a0graduate of Ladoga High School and played baseball and basketball at Wabash College, where he was head baseball coach 1986-1999. \u00a0He has taught English and Latin for his entire career, primarily at Crawfordsville, Fountain Central, and Covington high schools in West-Central Indiana.\u00a0 He\u2019s long since retired, but continues to serve as a substitute teacher at local schools, and takes advantage of Wabash facilities such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/news\/displaystory.cfm?news_ID=9897\">Lilly Library<\/a> to promote higher education \u2013 and Wabash College \u2013 to local high school students.<\/p>\n<p>This has all laid the ground work for another passion \u2013 Bill is an historian of Montgomery County and its sports.\u00a0 He also writes a weekly column for <em>The Paper of Montgomery County<\/em>, in which he focuses on looking back at what sports in the Montgomery County once were, such as\u00a0the history of girls\u2019 and boys\u2019 basketball uniforms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/09\/BooneBatsShot7.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6574\" title=\"BooneBatsShot7\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/09\/BooneBatsShot7-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/09\/BooneBatsShot7-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/09\/BooneBatsShot7.jpg 388w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo:\u00a0 Bill shows he is still ready to play at the 2010 Wabash Baseball Alumni Game.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Boone \u201860 is\u00a0graduate of Ladoga High School and played baseball and basketball at Wabash College, where he was head baseball coach 1986-1999. \u00a0He has taught English and Latin for his entire [&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-6573","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\/6573","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=6573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}