{"id":19754,"date":"2021-07-14T20:09:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T20:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoklahomaeagle.net\/?p=19754"},"modified":"2021-07-14T20:09:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T20:09:25","slug":"historic-lacy-park-ballfield-gets-new-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/2021\/07\/14\/historic-lacy-park-ballfield-gets-new-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Lacy Park Ballfield Gets New Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy James King<\/a>
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\nLacy Park is in the process of\u00a0<\/span>getting a much-needed facelift thanks to a Sunday sandlot league<\/a>, and it\u2019s more than just your average neighborhood ballpark. In the \u201950s, the T-Town Clowns, a semi-professional Negro League team, were the main attraction in north Tulsa.\n<\/div>\n
\n\u201cThis field would be packed, cars would be on both sides of Madison, all the way to Pine and this whole parking lot would be full with cars,\u201d said former T-Town Clown, Robert Pearson.\n<\/div>\n
\nSo when the Tulsa Rumblers, a Sunday sandlot team, was looking for a home they figured there was no better place than this historic field.\n<\/div>\n
\n\u201cThere’s a history of great baseball here and we’re honored to be a part of that. So when people hear that they want to come in and lend the biggest hand they can,\u201d said Rumblers player J.R. Phillips. \u201cWhen you have a really good cause behind what you’re doing, because we\u2019re just a bunch of late 30s early 40s dudes who hardly ever played ball before.\u201d
\nOnce people heard about what the ramblers were up to, the community hopped on board with the renovation efforts.\n<\/div>\n
\n\u201cOne person hears about it, they\u2019ve got a friend, somebody else knows, somebody else has somebody, and that’s kind of how it all started,\u201d said Rumberlers Co-captain Josh Kampf. \u201cWe picked a day, started getting after it and there will be more days to come but I\u2019ve think we\u2019ve made a huge impact in a 24 hour period.\u201d\n<\/div>\n
\nWhile it\u2019s not the same level of play that Pearson\u2019s Clowns brought to the field, the opportunity to preserve a community landmark was a special one.\n<\/div>\n
\n\u201cIt is more about coming out, the comradery, being around friends, being around family,\u201d said Kampf. \u201cMeeting new people and getting to play the game. We think we\u2019re pretty lucky just to get to do that.\u201d\n<\/div>\n

 
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www.ktul.com By James King       Lacy Park is in the process of\u00a0getting a much-needed facelift thanks to a Sunday sandlot league, and it\u2019s more than just your average neighborhood ballpark. In the \u201950s, the T-Town Clowns, a semi-professional Negro League team, were the main attraction in north Tulsa. \u201cThis field would be packed,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,103,110,106,1],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-19754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-featured","category-sports","category-tulsa","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19754"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=19754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}