{"id":101511,"date":"2017-07-13T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=101511"},"modified":"2017-07-13T09:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T13:00:02","slug":"lidom-has-a-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/07\/13\/lidom-has-a-new-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Lidom has a new president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-101482\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Lidom-1-300x103.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"103\" \/>The Professional Baseball League of the Dominican Republic (Lidom) has a new president, Vitelio Mejia Ortiz. Mejia received the unanimous vote from Lidom club presidents in the 11 July 2017 election.<\/p>\n<p>Mej\u00eda replaces Leonardo Matos Berrido, who held the position for 26 years. Previously, Mej\u00eda has been the vice president for legal affairs of the organization since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after he received the support of the six teams of the Dominican baseball league, Mej\u00eda said he would make changes to improve fans\u2019 baseball experience at the ball parks. At the same time, he said that he would propose changes to the statutes and rules that govern winter league baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Mej\u00eda said he would strengthen relationships with the players who are the principal attractions of the tournament, and make everything possible.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/eldia.com.do\/vitelio-mejia-promete-seguir-mejoras-lidom\/\" target=\"_blank\">El Dia<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/deportes\/beisbol\/mejia-el-beisbol-es-un-producto-que-debemos-preservar-XD7599220\" target=\"_blank\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>13 July 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Professional Baseball League of the Dominican Republic (Lidom) has a new president, Vitelio Mejia Ortiz. Mejia received the unanimous vote from Lidom club presidents in the 11 July 2017 election. Mej\u00eda replaces Leonardo Matos Berrido, who held the position for 26 years. Previously, Mej\u00eda has been the vice president for legal affairs of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/07\/13\/lidom-has-a-new-president\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}