{"id":15565,"date":"2019-11-12T02:35:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T07:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=15565"},"modified":"2019-11-12T02:38:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T07:38:52","slug":"brick-to-improve-youth-baseball-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2019\/11\/brick-to-improve-youth-baseball-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick to Improve Youth Baseball Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15566\" style=\"width: 852px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-12-at-2.34.08-AM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15566\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15566\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-12-at-2.34.08-AM.png\" alt=\"Boland Field (Credit: Google Maps)\" width=\"842\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-12-at-2.34.08-AM.png 842w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-12-at-2.34.08-AM-400x210.png 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-12-at-2.34.08-AM-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-12-at-2.34.08-AM-802x420.png 802w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-12-at-2.34.08-AM-640x335.png 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-12-at-2.34.08-AM-681x357.png 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 842px) 100vw, 842px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boland Field (Credit: Google Maps)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick officials are seeking bids to improve the condition of Boland Field, part of the Brick American baseball league complex on Lanes Mill Road in the township&#8217;s Herbertsville section.<\/p>\n<p>Councilwoman Heather deJong said the improvements to the field will fix a long-term drainage issue that has plagued the diamond for years. The problem has prevented the field from being used by young athletes for years, according to the councilwoman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"s1\">This project will resolve the drainage problem, reconstruct the infield and address other minor repairs that are necessary,&#8221; deJong said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The field is located approximately across the street from Brick Memorial High School on township-owned property. The improvements to the field were included in this year&#8217;s capital budget, officials said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2019\/11\/brick-to-improve-youth-baseball-fields\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick officials are seeking bids to improve the condition of Boland Field, part of the Brick American baseball league complex on Lanes Mill Road in the township&#8217;s Herbertsville section. Councilwoman Heather deJong said the improvements to the field will fix a long-term drainage issue that has plagued the diamond for years. The problem has prevented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[3870,3869,24],"class_list":["post-15565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","category-government","tag-boland-field","tag-brick-american-baseball","tag-brick-nj-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-12-at-2.34.08-AM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-433","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}