{"id":222909,"date":"2026-06-19T04:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222909\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T04:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:38:11","slug":"baseballtown-pays-tribute-to-berkshire-mall-favorites-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222909\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseballtown pays tribute to Berkshire Mall favorites | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 The wind didn\u2019t stop Fightin Phils fans from heading out to the ballpark in Reading Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>People filled the stands at FirstEnergy Stadium for Berkshire Mall Tribute Night.<\/p>\n<p>It included everyone\u2019s mall favorites. China Max whipped up some bourbon chicken, and Challenge Arcade even brought out some games for people to play.<\/p>\n<p>Berkshire Mall has been a staple in the community for more than 50 years. It\u2019s set to be sold to a developer in September.<\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/berks\/reading-area\/berkshire-mall-sale-postponed-again-as-developer-plans-demolition\/article_0b27cca8-f5a6-4892-800a-c20cbde5bf3e.html\" class=\"tnt-asset-link\" aria-label=\"Berkshire Mall sale postponed again as developer plans demolition\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Berkshire Mall sale postponed again as developer plans demolition\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><br \/>\n                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a2889956c661.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"tnt-summary\">They now say the sale is expected to be complete in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 The wind didn\u2019t stop Fightin Phils fans from heading out to the ballpark in Reading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[131,96963,96962,69863,24584,128,130,129,96961],"class_list":["post-222909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berkshire-mall","tag-challenge-arcade","tag-china-max","tag-fightin-phils","tag-firstenergy-stadium","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-tribute-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}