{"id":12154,"date":"2012-07-14T12:20:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T16:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/?p=12154"},"modified":"2012-07-14T12:45:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T16:45:46","slug":"the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/","title":{"rendered":"The Miracle League and the Pirates are making wishes come true"},"content":{"rendered":"The players that you see on TV and on the field, grew up with the hopes of one day being able to liv
Subscribe <\/a> or log in<\/a> to read the rest of this content.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The players that you see on TV and on the field, grew up with the hopes of one day being able to livSubscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21,59],"tags":[1782,1530,1302,729,1123,2039,2038,520,2041,2042,377,2040],"class_list":["post-12154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional","category-restricted","tag-casey-mcgehee","tag-jared-hughes","tag-jason-grilli","tag-joel-hanrahan","tag-michael-mckenry","tag-mike-sherry","tag-miracle-league","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-charities","tag-pirates-charities","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-sean-casey"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Miracle League and the Pirates are making wishes come true - Ohio Valley Athletics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Miracle League and the Pirates are making wishes come true - Ohio Valley Athletics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The players that you see on TV and on the field, grew up with the hopes of one day being able to livSubscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ohio Valley Athletics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ohiovalleyathletics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-07-14T16:20:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-07-14T16:45:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/AxNJ-68CIAEazm-.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"447\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"OVATHLETICS.COM STAFF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@OVathletics\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@OVathletics\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"OVATHLETICS.COM STAFF\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"8 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"OVATHLETICS.COM STAFF\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/e66db9eae7163918283827dcfcfa9b72\"},\"headline\":\"The Miracle League and the Pirates are making wishes come true\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-07-14T16:20:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-07-14T16:45:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/\"},\"wordCount\":1575,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/AxNJ-68CIAEazm-.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"casey mcgehee\",\"jared hughes\",\"jason grilli\",\"joel hanrahan\",\"michael mckenry\",\"mike sherry\",\"miracle league\",\"mlb\",\"mlb charities\",\"pirates charities\",\"Pittsburgh pirates\",\"sean casey\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Professional Sports\",\"Restricted\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/\",\"name\":\"The Miracle League and the Pirates are making wishes come true - Ohio Valley Athletics\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/AxNJ-68CIAEazm-.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-07-14T16:20:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-07-14T16:45:46+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/AxNJ-68CIAEazm-.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/AxNJ-68CIAEazm-.jpg\",\"width\":\"600\",\"height\":\"447\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Miracle League and the Pirates are making wishes come true\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Ohio Valley Athletics\",\"description\":\"The Ohio Valley's #1 site for local Sports Talk!\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Ohio Valley Athletics\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/tsalkovick-A.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/tsalkovick-A.png\",\"width\":960,\"height\":167,\"caption\":\"Ohio Valley Athletics\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ohiovalleyathletics\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/OVathletics\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/e66db9eae7163918283827dcfcfa9b72\",\"name\":\"OVATHLETICS.COM STAFF\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c692ada8939d2c454188566f8329e1bb06f693ec298b50080d8371f624c943af?s=96&r=x\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c692ada8939d2c454188566f8329e1bb06f693ec298b50080d8371f624c943af?s=96&r=x\",\"caption\":\"OVATHLETICS.COM STAFF\"},\"description\":\"This article was a provided public press release from one of our affiliate publications and\/or schools.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ovathletics\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/author\/ovathleticscom\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Miracle League and the Pirates are making wishes come true - Ohio Valley Athletics","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Miracle League and the Pirates are making wishes come true - Ohio Valley Athletics","og_description":"The players that you see on TV and on the field, grew up with the hopes of one day being able to livSubscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/","og_site_name":"Ohio Valley Athletics","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ohiovalleyathletics\/","article_published_time":"2012-07-14T16:20:33+00:00","article_modified_time":"2012-07-14T16:45:46+00:00","og_image":[{"width":"600","height":"447","url":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/AxNJ-68CIAEazm-.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"OVATHLETICS.COM STAFF","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@OVathletics","twitter_site":"@OVathletics","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"OVATHLETICS.COM STAFF","Est. reading time":"8 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/"},"author":{"name":"OVATHLETICS.COM STAFF","@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/e66db9eae7163918283827dcfcfa9b72"},"headline":"The Miracle League and the Pirates are making wishes come true","datePublished":"2012-07-14T16:20:33+00:00","dateModified":"2012-07-14T16:45:46+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/"},"wordCount":1575,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/AxNJ-68CIAEazm-.jpg","keywords":["casey mcgehee","jared hughes","jason grilli","joel hanrahan","michael mckenry","mike sherry","miracle league","mlb","mlb charities","pirates charities","Pittsburgh pirates","sean casey"],"articleSection":["Professional Sports","Restricted"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/","name":"The Miracle League and the Pirates are making wishes come true - Ohio Valley Athletics","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/AxNJ-68CIAEazm-.jpg","datePublished":"2012-07-14T16:20:33+00:00","dateModified":"2012-07-14T16:45:46+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/AxNJ-68CIAEazm-.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/AxNJ-68CIAEazm-.jpg","width":"600","height":"447"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/the-miracle-league-and-the-pirates-are-making-wishes-come-true\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Miracle League and the Pirates are making wishes come true"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/","name":"Ohio Valley Athletics","description":"The Ohio Valley's #1 site for local Sports Talk!","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#organization","name":"Ohio Valley Athletics","url":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/tsalkovick-A.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/tsalkovick-A.png","width":960,"height":167,"caption":"Ohio Valley Athletics"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ohiovalleyathletics\/","https:\/\/x.com\/OVathletics"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/e66db9eae7163918283827dcfcfa9b72","name":"OVATHLETICS.COM STAFF","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c692ada8939d2c454188566f8329e1bb06f693ec298b50080d8371f624c943af?s=96&r=x","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c692ada8939d2c454188566f8329e1bb06f693ec298b50080d8371f624c943af?s=96&r=x","caption":"OVATHLETICS.COM STAFF"},"description":"This article was a provided public press release from one of our affiliate publications and\/or schools.","sameAs":["http:\/\/twitter.com\/ovathletics"],"url":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/author\/ovathleticscom\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12160,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154\/revisions\/12160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}