{"id":307150,"date":"2023-06-12T17:30:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T17:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=307150"},"modified":"2023-06-12T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T17:58:08","slug":"los-angeles-city-hs-baseball-champions-raising-money-for-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=307150","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles city HS baseball champions raising money for rings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earning a World Series championship ring is the highest accolade in all of baseball. However, it’s also a one-in-a-million accomplishment – something that many great players can never hope to achieve.<\/span><\/p>\n

That doesn’t mean championships at the lower levels shouldn’t be celebrated, though. One high school team in Southern California is putting together a memento so their special 2023 season can last a lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Sylmar High School team<\/span><\/a>\u00a0won the city championship in Los Angeles a few weeks ago, and now the team is trying to raise money for championship rings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Head coach Ray Rivera says he wants the players to enjoy their accomplishment without having to go into their own pockets for a relatively expensive piece of hardware,\u00a0<\/span>per KTLA<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

“This wasn’t something that was accomplished overnight. This was the culmination of years of hard work… All I am trying to do is offset the cost for the families for something that I feel the boys have earned and really shouldn’t have to pay for.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s what the rings will look like:<\/span><\/p>\n

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via gofundme<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The team’s ring GoFundme<\/a> set an initial goal of $9,000. At the time of this writing, they’ve surpassed that mark and are at $10,085.<\/p>\n

More baseball stories<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hall of Famer Jim Thome coaching at HS where his son plays<\/a><\/p>\n

Yankees catcher reached out to NY high school team<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One high school team in Southern California is putting together a memento so their special 2023 season can last a lifetime.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":307152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307157,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307150\/revisions\/307157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/307152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}