{"id":351,"date":"2014-03-22T17:28:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T21:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2014-03-22T17:28:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T21:28:52","slug":"baseball-birthdays-march-twenty-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Birthdays: March twenty-second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ramon Martinez always said brother Pedro was better.<br \/>\nHe was no slouch himself, had twenty wins and a no-hitter.<\/p>\n<p>Glenallen Hill played outfield flies as if they all were sliders.<br \/>\nHe may have used some steroids and was quite afraid of spiders.<\/p>\n<p>Dick Ellsworth once won twenty-two games and played for five teams.<br \/>\nHis baseball card in sixty-six showed dead Ken Hubbs, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>Cory Lidle was a righty with a rep as brash.<br \/>\nGot traded to the Yankees and died in a freak plane crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramon Martinez always said brother Pedro was better. He was no slouch himself, had twenty wins and a no-hitter. Glenallen Hill played outfield flies as if they all were sliders. He may have used some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=351\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2","tag-poem","tag-poetry-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":378,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=378","url_meta":{"origin":351,"position":0},"title":"Baseball Birthdays: April tenth","author":"Rick Young","date":"April 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Chuck Connors, t.v.'s \"Rifleman, played basket and baseball With Celtics, Dodgers and the Cubs, before Hollywood's call. 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