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He once got on an airplane with a bat inside a gun case. Bobby Cox, famed manager, was very well respected. He holds the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=436\">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-436","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":381,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=381","url_meta":{"origin":436,"position":0},"title":"Baseball Birthdays: April thirteenth","author":"Rick Young","date":"April 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"John Stephenson played ten years but not many know his name. 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