{"id":409,"date":"2014-05-05T00:30:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T04:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2014-05-05T00:30:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T04:30:13","slug":"baseball-birthdays-may-fifth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Birthdays: May fifth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief Bender was a pitcher who was heckled through his days.
\nHe won two hundred twelve games, mostly for Connie Mack’s A’s.<\/p>\n

Bob Cerv served Yanks and chipped in an occasional home run.
\nHe roomed with Mick and Roger during nineteen sixty-one.<\/p>\n

Don Buddin was a shortstop who engendered fielding terrors.
\nIn five years with the Red Sox, the dude averaged thirty errors.<\/p>\n

Tommy Helms played fourteen years. His fielding got high grades.
\nHe didn’t strike out much and twice was swapped in major trades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chief Bender was a pitcher who was heckled through his days. He won two hundred twelve games, mostly for Connie Mack’s A’s. Bob Cerv served Yanks and chipped in an occasional home run. He roomed … 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-409","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":423,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=423","url_meta":{"origin":409,"position":0},"title":"Baseball Birthdays: May thirteenth","author":"Rick Young","date":"May 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Dusty Rhodes was noted for his many clutch pinch hits. He was a Giant at the plate. 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