{"id":18098,"date":"2015-12-31T09:43:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T14:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=18098"},"modified":"2015-12-31T09:43:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T14:43:41","slug":"kennett-old-timers-hall-of-fame-banquet-jan-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=18098","title":{"rendered":"Kennett Old Timers Hall of Fame banquet, Jan. 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Baseball-300x241.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1251201\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Baseball-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"Baseball\" \/><\/a>KENNETT \u2014 The 36th annual Kennett Old TimersBaseball Hall of Fame Banquet and induction ceremony will be held on Jan. 16<span style=\"font-size: 10.8333px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s1\">at the Kennett Fire Company Red Clay Room. \u00a0The ceremony honors local athletes who haveexcelled in baseball after high school. \u00a0Longtime Phillies broadcaster and club ambassador Chris Wheeler will be this year\u2019s guest speaker.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">There are eight inductees for2016: \u00a0Bill Beirne, Jack Bradley, George Hadfield, Lawrence \u201cMickey\u201d Hess, Jerry Johnson, Rickard \u201cRick\u201d B. Marvin, Dennis M. Petrucci and Jim Wagner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Beirne of Wilmington has been acoach and manager of KAU Little League Baseball for 12 years and a board memberfor two. He played with the Kennett Baseball League Milltown Mudhens and the sheer Satisfaction Cutters.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bradley of Downingtown played with Coatesville and Kennett adult leagues baseball and has participated in many championship games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hadfield of Cochranville playedin several adult leagues including West Chester and Kennett. He coached high school baseball at Bishop Shanahan and Octorara high schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hess of Coatesville played for Millersville University. He has also played with the West Chester and Kennett men\u2019s adult leagues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Johnson of West Chester, began playing baseball in the Kennett Square KAU Little League and continued with the Teeners Club, the Sam Tavoni League and the Counts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Marvin of North Eastham, Massachusetts, played in the Unionville Farm League and KAU Little League. He played basebal lfor Tower Hill High School in the 1970s and was Most Valuable Player from 1972 to 1974. He played and coached with numerous leagues in Massachusetts and also played varsity tennis at Penn State University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Petrucci of Avondale played int he St. Patrick Pee Wee League, Babe Ruth League and the Sam Tavoni softball league. He has also coached youth baseball teams and has been an umpire for 15years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Wagner of Downingtown played college ball at Villanova, then played in the West Chester Adult League, where he was Most Valuable Player in 1972. He also played in the Kennett Senior League.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tickets for this year\u2019s banquet are $36 and may be purchased at Burton\u2019s Barber Shop in Kennett Square or by calling 610-444-9964. The deadline to purchase tickets is by Jan. 5.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KENNETT \u2014 The 36th annual Kennett Old TimersBaseball Hall of Fame Banquet and induction ceremony will be held on Jan. 16\u00a0at the Kennett Fire Company Red Clay Room. \u00a0The ceremony honors local athletes who haveexcelled in baseball after high school. \u00a0Longtime Phillies broadcaster and club ambassador Chris Wheeler will be this year\u2019s guest speaker.\u00a0 There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[56,5174,6957],"class_list":["post-18098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-baseball","tag-hall-of-fame","tag-kennett-old-timers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}