{"id":383,"date":"2014-04-15T07:41:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T11:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2014-04-15T07:41:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T11:41:21","slug":"baseball-birthdays-april-fifteenth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Birthdays: April fifteenth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Willie Davis sailed the center pasture like a glider.<br \/>\nPlayed thirteen years for L.A., taking over for Duke Snider.<\/p>\n<p>Woody Fryman was a portly lefty from Kentucky.<br \/>\nThat he pitched four one-hitters proved that he was not lucky.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Sizemore was the rookie of the year in sixty-nine.<br \/>\nWas traded for Dick Allen once, like swapping teak for pine.<\/p>\n<p>Milton Bradley played for eight ball clubs in just ten years.<br \/>\nWas strung a little tighter than most of his game day peers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willie Davis sailed the center pasture like a glider. Played thirteen years for L.A., taking over for Duke Snider. Woody Fryman was a portly lefty from Kentucky. That he pitched four one-hitters proved that he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=383\">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":[23,3,4],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2","tag-addothersifdesiredoremovethislastone","tag-poem","tag-poetry-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":404,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=404","url_meta":{"origin":383,"position":0},"title":"Baseball Birthdays: May second","author":"Rick Young","date":"May 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Eddie Collins' teams were series champions six times. Once was with the \"Black Sox,\" but he was absolved of crimes. 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