{"id":241818,"date":"2026-07-12T21:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241818\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T21:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:33:07","slug":"mlb-all-star-village-opens-at-the-pennsylvania-convention-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241818\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB All-Star Village opens at the Pennsylvania Convention Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The MLB All-Star Village is open, and hundreds of fans lined up outside at the Pennsylvania Convention Center Sunday to explore the attraction.<\/p>\n<p>The village boasts 500,000 square feet of space, and features two baseball diamonds, interactive displays, VR experiences, and the world\u2019s largest baseball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are a baseball, softball, bat-and-ball person, this is where you want to be,\u201d said David James with Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Philly MLB legends were also in attendance, with Hall-of-Famers like Cole Hamels and Carlos Ruiz chatting with fans.<\/p>\n<p>The convention also features exhibits of Philly baseball artifacts, like Trey Turner and Kyle Schwarber\u2019s recent City Connect jerseys. <\/p>\n<p>The All-Star Village will be open through Tuesday, July 14, when the All-Star Game takes place at Citizens Bank Park. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The MLB All-Star Village is open, and hundreds of fans lined up outside at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[103715,1423,24492,69,71,70,1425],"class_list":["post-241818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-all-star-village","tag-mlb","tag-pennsylvania-convention-center","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241818","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=241818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}