{"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\u2019s 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>\u201c<span class=\"s1\">This project will resolve the drainage problem, reconstruct the infield and address other minor repairs that are necessary,\u201d 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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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_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}]}}