{"id":52853,"date":"2000-07-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-07-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/961ab008-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2000-07-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-07-31T00:00:00","slug":"961ab01c-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/961ab01c-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"SBL 2000 kicks off in Aug."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saipan Major League Baseball Association will hold the 2nd Annual Summer Baseball League on Aug. 28 at 6:30 p.m. at the Francisco M. Palacios ball field in Susupe.<\/p>\n<p>So far six teams have expressed their interest to play in the league but only one team have submitted a roster. Entrance fee of $1,200.00, payable to SML on or before Aug. 21 no later than 5:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Teams are asked to start securing team sponsors now and not wait till the last minute. Ordering of baseball uniforms from off-island vendors should be taken into consideration.<\/p>\n<p>The association is also reminding teams that only those players turning 18 on or before the league&#8217;s opening date are eligible to play. Likewise, those players turning 26 this year are not eligible to play. Copies of birth certificates, driver&#8217;s license, or passports of new players must be submitted along with an entrance fee of $6.00 per player before the Aug. 21.<\/p>\n<p>Prospective teams for the upcoming league include last season&#8217;s champion and pennant winners Saipan Stevedore Pirates, Team Pepsi, Northern Yankees, Kautz Glass Glazers, Tanapag Falcons and a team from Koblerville.<\/p>\n<p>Should everything goes as planned, the opening night will see the defending champions Pirates squaring off against runner-up champs Pepsi at 6:30 p.m. Games will be played every Monday, Wednesday and Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact league coordinator Tony Rogolifoi at the Ada Gym or at 234-1001\/1002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saipan Major League Baseball Association will hold the 2nd Annual Summer Baseball League on Aug. 28 at 6:30 p.m. at the Francisco M. Palacios ball field in Susupe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}