{"id":397,"date":"2014-04-26T02:36:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T06:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=397"},"modified":"2014-04-26T02:36:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T06:36:29","slug":"baseball-birthdays-april-twenty-sixth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Birthdays: April twenty-sixth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sal &quot;The Barber&quot; Maglie pitched for all three New York teams.<br \/>\nHis close-shave brushback pitches gave good hitters some bad dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Virgil &quot;Fire&quot; Trucks threw blazing fastballs just like flames.<br \/>\nThrew two no-hitters in a year when he lost nineteen games.<\/p>\n<p>Amos Otis roamed the Royals&#8217; pasture many seasons.<br \/>\nHis stats were good. Perhaps his corked bat was one of the reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Scott, Astros&#8217; big right-hander, fooled many a hitter.<br \/>\nHis career took off when Roger Craig taught him the splitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sal &quot;The Barber&quot; Maglie pitched for all three New York teams. His close-shave brushback pitches gave good hitters some bad dreams. Virgil &quot;Fire&quot; Trucks threw blazing fastballs just like flames. Threw two no-hitters in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=397\">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-397","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":457,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=457","url_meta":{"origin":397,"position":0},"title":"Baseball Birthdays: June second","author":"Rick Young","date":"June 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Jim Maloney threw quite hard and often made Reds proud. Had three career no-hitters, one later disallowed. Horace Clarke played second after Richardson retired. 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