{"id":357,"date":"2014-03-28T09:55:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T13:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2014-03-28T09:55:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T13:55:21","slug":"baseball-birthdays-march-twenty-eighth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Birthdays: March twenty-eighth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lon Warneke threw his best year by far for Cubs in thirty-two.<br \/>\nHe got them to the series, but was swept by Yankees, Babe and Lou.<\/p>\n<p>Vic Raschi was the &quot;Springfield Rifle.&quot; His right arm was like a gun.<br \/>\nAfter years with Yankees, he served Aaron&#8217;s homer number one.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn Davis was a powerful first sacker for the eighties &#8216;Stros.<br \/>\nGot traded, hurt, released, played in Japan. And that&#8217;s the way it goes.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Fitzgerald homered for the Mets his first time at the plate.<br \/>\nWas swapped for Gary Carter, legendary Expos backstop great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lon Warneke threw his best year by far for Cubs in thirty-two. He got them to the series, but was swept by Yankees, Babe and Lou. Vic Raschi was the &quot;Springfield Rifle.&quot; His right arm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=357\">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-357","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":351,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=351","url_meta":{"origin":357,"position":0},"title":"Baseball Birthdays: March twenty-second","author":"Rick Young","date":"March 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Ramon Martinez always said brother Pedro was better. He was no slouch himself, had twenty wins and a no-hitter. 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