{"id":267050,"date":"2026-08-17T19:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267050\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T19:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:50:09","slug":"albright-college-alumni-lands-minor-league-deal-with-phillies-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267050\/","title":{"rendered":"Albright College alumni lands minor league deal with Phillies | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"778972351_1586495976221581_7649076447416037521_n.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1006\" height=\"566\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a835bfab41ba.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; An Albright College graduate has signed a minor league contract with the Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n<p>According to a social media post from the college, 2010 baseball alumnus Casey Lawrence inked the deal. Lawrence was inducted into the Albright Athletics Hall of Fame in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"777355119_1045707928169877_8783447117678834_n.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1006\" height=\"566\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a835c0d96243.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>To read more about Lawrence and view his stats, visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/casey-lawrence-596271?msockid=17feeb99c56a624a0d43fcbdc4296381\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.mlb.com\/player\/casey-lawrence<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; An Albright College graduate has signed a minor league contract with the Philadelphia Phillies. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[12959,12183,4662,112599,26765,112600,1425,128,130,129,96943],"class_list":["post-267050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-albright-college","tag-athlete","tag-baseball","tag-casey-lawrence","tag-hall-of-fame","tag-minor-league-contract","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-sports-signing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267050","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=267050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}