{"id":21702,"date":"2024-08-04T07:01:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T13:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21702"},"modified":"2024-08-01T07:28:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T13:28:29","slug":"book-32-of-52-the-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/book-32-of-52-the-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 32 (of 52) &#8211; The Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21703\" style=\"width: 346px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/shift.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21703\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21703\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/shift.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/shift.jpg 336w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/shift-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Shift: The Business of Baseball at The Youth-High School and Professional Level &#8211; Walter Beede<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former college baseball coach Walter Beede takes a look at how youth travel baseball has upended baseball, from Little League all the way up to college ball, and how travel baseball has transformed from a way to let elite talent compete against each other to a free-for-all built to extract as much money from as many parents as possible.\u00a0 Clocking in at about 100 pages, <em>The Shift<\/em> is really only for parents navigating the world of youth baseball for something other than a recreational activity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former college baseball coach Walter Beede takes a look at how youth travel baseball has upended baseball, from Little League all the way up to college ball, and how travel baseball has transformed from a way to let elite talent compete against each other to a free-for-all built to extract as much money from as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,34],"tags":[1525,11522,11521],"class_list":["post-21702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","category-baseball","tag-little-league","tag-the-shift-the-business-of-baseball-at-the-youth-high-school-and-professional-level","tag-walter-beede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21704,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21702\/revisions\/21704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}