{"id":13755,"date":"2012-04-05T15:10:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T19:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13755"},"modified":"2012-04-05T14:21:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T18:21:10","slug":"former-high-school-baseball-player-seeks-to-join-professional-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13755","title":{"rendered":"Former High School Baseball Player Seeks To Join Professional Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Darryl Williams<\/strong> said his life\u2019s story doesn\u2019t differ much from many young black males these days.<\/p>\n<p>While attending Plant High School, <strong>Williams<\/strong> was an outstanding baseball player in 2005 and 2006. When he graduated in 2007, he hoped a professional team would show some interest in him, but nothing ever materialized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think mistakes I made in the past cost me opportunities now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Williams<\/strong> said he\u2019s joined the Tampa Bay Adult-Wood Bat League with hopes of getting the attention of scouts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went to a Yankee Scouting combine 3 weeks ago, and they told me I needed more experience. All I\u2019m asking for is an opportunity to try out for a team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have some family members who have played professional baseball, like <strong>Michael Burgess<\/strong>, and I want to get an opportunity to prove I still have what it takes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Williams<\/strong> said although he\u2019s primarily an outfielder, he can also play center field, and left field.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Reporter Leon B. Crews can be reached at (813) 248-0724.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darryl Williams said his life\u2019s story doesn\u2019t differ much from many young black males these days. While attending Plant High School, Williams was an outstanding baseball player in 2005 and 2006. When he graduated in 2007, he hoped a professional team would show some interest in him, but nothing ever materialized. \u201cI think mistakes I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}