{"id":1900,"date":"2010-03-05T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/baseball-opening-day-at-poly-to-honor-1985-league-champs\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T06:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T06:40:00","slug":"baseball-opening-day-at-poly-to-honor-1985-league-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/baseball-opening-day-at-poly-to-honor-1985-league-champs","title":{"rendered":"Baseball: Opening Day At Poly To Honor 1985 League Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Long Beach Poly will celebrate Opening Day 2010 in grand fashion, as they host the Torrance Tartars for a 3:15pm game\u2014prior to first pitch, Poly will honor the last Jackrabbit team to win a Moore League banner, in 1985 (pregame festivities begin at 2:50pm).  BBQ Hot dogs, kettle corn, shaved ice, and other ballpark snacks will be available from vendors before and during the game.<\/p>\n

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The championship drought is despite the presence of MLB stars Chase Utley, Milton Bradley, and James McDonald being in the lineup.  <\/span>The 1985 Jackrabbits also advanced to the quarterfinals of the CIF playoffs riding the hot arm of staff ace, Erick Bryant, who would go on to be drafted by the Seattle Mariners.  Bryant is now the head coach at Cabrillo.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The head coach of the 1985 team and community icon, Joe Perruccio, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch.  The Reverend H.A. Bryant, father of Erick, will be the honorary umpire for the first pitch ceremony.  Coach Bryant has an Opening Day game of his own for Cabrillo High School and will be unable to attend.  He will be honored on Thursday, March 4th at the Poly Baseball Leadoff Dinner.  1985 team members expected to attend:<\/o:p><\/p>\n

LF Frank Gideon<\/o:p><\/p>\n

CF  Dedrick Walton<\/o:p><\/p>\n

RF Macolm Perkins<\/o:p><\/p>\n

P\/RF Greg Reid<\/o:p><\/p>\n

P\/1B  Scott Moore<\/o:p><\/p>\n

P\/1B  Danny Goytia<\/o:p><\/p>\n

INF  Merle Cole<\/o:p><\/p>\n

2B  Johnny Madina<\/o:p><\/p>\n

C  Phillip Williams<\/o:p><\/p>\n

C  Tommy Stiles<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Thanks to Poly coach Toby Hess for the info, and the spiffy writeup!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been 25 years since Poly won a Moore League baseball banner; as they kick off the 2010 campaign this afternoon, they’ll honor that 1985 Jackrabbits team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}