{"id":19877,"date":"2017-02-17T10:14:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T15:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=19877"},"modified":"2017-02-17T10:16:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T15:16:46","slug":"sports-extra-dont-let-your-family-stories-be-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/sports-extra-dont-let-your-family-stories-be-lost.html","title":{"rendered":"Sports Extra: Don\u2019t Let Your Family Stories Be Lost!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a neighborhood in America without a basketball hoop, pick-up games and talk of sports scores? Or a park without a football\/soccer field or a baseball diamond? Americans have always played and loved their sports.<\/p>\n<p>Our ancestors loved their sports, too \u2013 and this can be found in the pages of old newspapers, such as GenealogyBank\u2019s online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/explore\/newspapers\/all?utm_source=social&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&s_referrer=social&s_siteloc=blog&s_trackval=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&kbid=69919&pq=1&prebuy=no&intver=&CCPRODCODE=\">Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>. For example, kids played on Little League baseball teams and their accomplishments were printed in their local newspapers. These stories are preserved forever in GenealogyBank.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19879\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19879\" style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/stamford-advocate-newspaper-0605-1994-little-league.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19879\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19879\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/stamford-advocate-newspaper-0605-1994-little-league.png\" alt=\"An article about Little League baseball, Stamford Advocate newspaper article 5 June 1994\" width=\"375\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/stamford-advocate-newspaper-0605-1994-little-league.png 375w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/stamford-advocate-newspaper-0605-1994-little-league-300x284.png 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/stamford-advocate-newspaper-0605-1994-little-league-264x250.png 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stamford Advocate (Stamford, Connecticut), 5 June 1994, page 37<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Did your ancestor score the winning run in the big game?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Genealogy Tip:<\/em><\/strong> Don\u2019t overlook the newspaper articles that document the fun your relatives had growing up. Find and preserve their sports stories \u2013 get the whole picture of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Play ball!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article about researching your family history by finding old newspaper stories about your ancestors playing sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[12,2719,2020,1149],"class_list":["post-19877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-search-tips","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/photo-0217-2017-featured-graphic-little-league-baseball.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}