{"id":3489,"date":"2009-08-05T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T05:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/this-week-area-code-games-blair-field\/"},"modified":"2009-08-05T05:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T05:29:00","slug":"this-week-area-code-games-blair-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/this-week-area-code-games-blair-field","title":{"rendered":"THIS WEEK: Area Code Games @ Blair Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment-->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In twenty games spread over six days, beginning today at 4pm, the nation&#8217;s best high school baseball players will show off for a host of scouts and spectators.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/span>There&#8217;s a regrettable dearth of local players (nobody from Long Beach made the cut), but there will be plenty of big names spread out over the eight rosters.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/span>The relationship of showcasing to scouting is increasingly blurry in high school sports, and that&#8217;s certainly true at the Area Code games, where the managers of each team are listed in the roster as Coaches\/Scouts\u2014still, if you&#8217;re looking for high-quality prep baseball, this is likely the best venue in the nation for it, and it&#8217;s right in our backyard.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Former players in the games include Jered Weaver, Barry Zito, Troy Tulowitzki, Ryan Howard, and Albert Pujols\u2014it&#8217;s likely one of the MLB&#8217;s future superstars will be at Blair this week; a one-day pass is $10, and an all-tourney pass is $25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">For more info including rosters and a full schedule, <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/insider\/feature\/index?page=areacode2009\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/s_image1249446524-52453.jpg\" style=\"width: 310px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: black; border-right-color: black; border-bottom-color: black; border-left-color: black; \" align=\"left\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nation&#8217;s best high school baseball players will be on display at Long Beach&#8217;s very own Blair Field this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":16984,"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-3489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489","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=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}