{"id":605409,"date":"2026-04-14T03:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/605409\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T03:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:09:08","slug":"honoring-history-at-chattanoogas-mlb-rbi-opening-day-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/605409\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring history at Chattanooga&#8217;s MLB-RBI opening day | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Chattanooga will be hosting <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chattanoogarbi.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MLB-Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities<\/a> (RBI) Opening Day at Frost Stadium on Monday, April 13, at 5:00pm to celebrate young athletes&#8217; development and love of the game.<\/p>\n<p>The event will feature a parade showcasing many different youth teams who are affiliated with the RBI program. After the parade will be the ceremonial first pitch to launch the season.<\/p>\n<p>There will be three honorary guests throwing the first pitch:<\/p>\n<p>Marvene Noel: District 8 Councilwoman<\/p>\n<p>David Crutcher: Former Negro League player<\/p>\n<p>Dank Hawkins: Chattanooga Sports Hall of Fame member<\/p>\n<p>Officials say they will be celebrating local Negro League athletes, as well as their historical significance and the influence they have had on the Scenic City.<\/p>\n<p>Find more details on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1705041943989073\/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22search%22%7D%2C%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook event page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Chattanooga will be hosting MLB-Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) Opening Day at Frost Stadium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[131907,64,63,131910,2359,4034,131918,131923,131927,90896,131920,131906,131905,131912,5882,131914,131913,131908,591,255194,9146,85,112271,92337,2357,9134,131909,7891],"class_list":{"0":"post-605409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-athletic-sports","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-ball-and-bat-games","12":"tag-ball-games","13":"tag-baseball","14":"tag-baseball-competitions","15":"tag-baseball-events","16":"tag-baseball-finals","17":"tag-baseball-games","18":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","19":"tag-baseball-teams","20":"tag-grass-field-surfaces","21":"tag-lawn-games","22":"tag-major-league-baseball","23":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","24":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","25":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","26":"tag-mlb","27":"tag-october-in-sports","28":"tag-outdoor-sports","29":"tag-sports","30":"tag-sports-competitions","31":"tag-sports-events","32":"tag-team-activities","33":"tag-team-sports","34":"tag-turf-sports","35":"tag-world-series"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}