{"id":352,"date":"2014-03-23T07:42:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T11:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=352"},"modified":"2014-03-23T07:42:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T11:42:03","slug":"baseball-birthdays-march-twenty-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Birthdays: March twenty-third"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Lemon was a Senator who never was elected.<br \/>\nHe played with great Roy Sievers. Though they lost, they were respected.<\/p>\n<p>George &quot;Boomer&quot; Scott played smooth first sack and smothered many rallies.<br \/>\nHe killed Rick Wise and, for his size, had power to the alleys.<\/p>\n<p>Lee May hit fastballs a long way, with curves was not so keen.<br \/>\nHe bounced around from team to team, was short term Red Machine.<\/p>\n<p>Bo Diaz bent behind home plate was best described as able.<br \/>\nHe died while trying to fix his dish, a perfect ad for cable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Lemon was a Senator who never was elected. He played with great Roy Sievers. Though they lost, they were respected. George &quot;Boomer&quot; Scott played smooth first sack and smothered many rallies. He killed Rick &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=352\">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-352","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":434,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=434","url_meta":{"origin":352,"position":0},"title":"Baseball Birthdays: May twentieth","author":"Rick Young","date":"May 20, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Wilcy Moore, as rookie, had the league's best E.R.A. His twenty-seven Yankees were the best team of their day. Ken Boyer could field third like Clete, but hit a whole lot more. 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