{"id":24523,"date":"2017-08-27T16:38:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T23:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24523"},"modified":"2017-08-27T16:38:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T23:38:40","slug":"labor-day-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/labor-day-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Laboring Away with Sticks and Balls at Labor Day Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/stikball.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the thousands of drummers using their drumsticks to perform at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/september-music.html\">concerts and festivals<\/a> on Labor Day Weekend, sticks and balls come into play at a variety of festivals you can make note of this week in California.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At Fort Bragg&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/paul-bunyan-days.html\">Paul Bunyan Days<\/a>\u00a0Sept.1-4, 2017, the burley lumberjack who carries a big ax knows all about sticks. Wood&#8217;s his thing and something locals embrace in this neck of the woods known as California&#8217;s Redwood Coast. \u00a0Log Rolling Contests are an annual favorite, as well as the Logging Show with big cash prizes for:<br \/>\nAxe Throw<br \/>\nSingle Buck Handsaw<br \/>\nObstacle Pole Powersaw<br \/>\nJack and Jill Handsaw<br \/>\nChoker Setting<br \/>\nDouble Buck Handsaw<br \/>\nSingle Jill Handsaw<br \/>\nStock Chainsaw Bucking<br \/>\nJill and Jill Handsaw<br \/>\nHorizontal Hand Chopping<br \/>\nPole Climb<\/li>\n<li>Pleasanton&#8217;s 152nd <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/pleasanton-scottish-games.html\">Scottish Highland Gathering &amp; Games<\/a> Sept.2-3 features sticks and balls&#8211;all very big and heavy:<br \/>\nPutting the Heavy Stone<br \/>\nScottish Hammer<br \/>\nCaber<br \/>\nArchery<br \/>\nPiping &amp; Drumming<br \/>\nKilted Mile Run<\/li>\n<li>San Diego&#8217;s Little Italy hosts an annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-diego-stickball.html\">Stickball Tournament<\/a> taking place Sept. 2-3. It&#8217;s the ultimate game bringing sticks and balls together into one great sport. Players from New York and Puerto Rico come to challenge the San Diego Stickball teams &#8212; watch grown men grab a broom stick, table leg or any other kind of bat-like stick to a rubber Wilson ball and swing it out!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the thousands of drummers using their drumsticks to perform at concerts and festivals on Labor Day Weekend, sticks and balls come into play at a variety of festivals you can make note of this week in California. At Fort Bragg&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0Paul Bunyan Days\u00a0Sept.1-4, 2017, the burley lumberjack who carries a big ax knows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24523"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}