{"id":2426,"date":"2009-09-24T13:03:16","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T18:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2009-09-24T13:03:16","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T18:03:16","slug":"on-richmonds-new-baseball-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2426","title":{"rendered":"On Richmond&#8217;s New Baseball Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.timesdispatch.com\/rtd\/sports\/professional\/professional_baseball\/article\/BASEGAT23_20090923-103201\/294910\/\">Richmond is getting a minor league baseball team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Defenders of Norwich, Connecticut are moving south, to play ball in Richmond.  Once home to the Richmond Braves, Atlanta&#8217;s AAA franchise, the Diamond will now host the AA franchise of the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n<p>The team is looking for a new name, and the <i>Richmond Times-Disgrace<\/i> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.timesdispatch.com\/rtd\/sports\/baseball\/name-the-team\/\">having a contest to name the team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about it.  I pondered it.  I thought about &#8220;Colonials.&#8221;  That sounded good.<\/p>\n<p>But then, historian that I am, the <i>right<\/i> name struck me.<\/p>\n<p>Burgesses.<\/p>\n<p>After the House of Burgesses, the first elected assembly in the British colonies, founded in 1618.  A very appropriate name for the baseball team in the capital city of the Old Dominion.<\/p>\n<p>Go and vote.  I encourage you, all of my readers, to suggest Burgesses as the name of the team.  And maybe you&#8217;ll win two season tickets for life to see the Richmond Burgesses. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>However, Richmond <i>really<\/i> needs to rebuild or repair the Diamond.  The place is a bit of dump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richmond is getting a minor league baseball team. The Defenders of Norwich, Connecticut are moving south, to play ball in Richmond. Once home to the Richmond Braves, Atlanta&#8217;s AAA franchise, the Diamond will now host the AA franchise of the San Francisco Giants. The team is looking for a new name, and the Richmond Times-Disgrace<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2426\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Richmond&#8217;s New Baseball Team&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4081,214,222],"class_list":["post-2426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-minor-league-baseball","tag-richmond","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}