{"id":145768,"date":"2025-06-17T12:31:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T12:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/17\/former-daily-show-star-roy-wood-jr-goes-to-the-ballpark-in-roku-doc\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T12:31:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T12:31:36","slug":"former-daily-show-star-roy-wood-jr-goes-to-the-ballpark-in-roku-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/17\/former-daily-show-star-roy-wood-jr-goes-to-the-ballpark-in-roku-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"Former \u2018Daily Show\u2019 Star Roy Wood Jr.\u00a0Goes To The Ballpark In Roku Doc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tChicago Cubs fan <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/roy-wood-jr\/\" id=\"auto-tag_roy-wood-jr\" data-tag=\"roy-wood-jr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roy Wood Jr.<\/a>\u00a0is heading again to the ballpark in a brand new documentary for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/roku\/\" id=\"auto-tag_roku\" data-tag=\"roku\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roku<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWood Jr., who spent eight years as a correspondent for <em>The Daily Show, <\/em>grew up taking part in baseball in Birmingham, Alabama and is now set to host <em>Going, Going Gone: The Magic of the Home Run.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe <em>Have I Got News For You<\/em> host, who additionally hosted baseball podcast <em>Road to Rickwood<\/em>, is heading to totally different ballparks and different baseball landmarks throughout the nation to revisit a number of the most memorable residence runs in historical past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<em>Going, Going Gone: The Magic of the Home Run<\/em> will air on The Roku Channel on July to rejoice the Home Run Derby, which takes place on July 14 at Truist Park in Atlanta. It is produced by MLB Studios. Sean Boyle is overseeing the mission on behalf of Roku<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe doc additionally options appearances from Pete Alonso, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, Albert Pujols, Chris Berman, and Bob Costas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIt is Roku\u2019s newest at bat as it&#8217;s in its second season because the unique residence of the MLB Sunday Leadoff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWood Jr. mentioned, \u201cAs a baseball fan, it\u2019s an honor to lead the exploration into one of the most electric acts in all of sports.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThis special marks a new milestone in our partnership with Major League Baseball and will bring audiences the fun, emotion, and anticipation of the home run, and more specifically, one of the biggest events in sports, the Home Run Derby,\u201d added Joe Franzetta, Head of Sports, Roku Media. \u201cWe look forward to having the sport\u2019s top players and figures unpack notable performances, electric moments, and more in this all-new special.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Chicago Cubs fan Roy Wood Jr.\u00a0is heading again to the ballpark in a brand new documentary for Roku. Wood Jr., who spent eight years as a correspondent for The Daily Show, grew up taking part in baseball in Birmingham, Alabama and is now set to host Going, Going Gone: The Magic of the Home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[12030,1198,342,12029,6600,11201,194,250,8559],"class_list":{"0":"post-145768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip","8":"tag-ballpark","9":"tag-daily","10":"tag-doc","11":"tag-jr-goes","12":"tag-roku","13":"tag-roy","14":"tag-show","15":"tag-star","16":"tag-wood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}