{"id":437,"date":"2014-05-22T08:48:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T12:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=437"},"modified":"2014-05-22T08:48:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T12:48:34","slug":"baseball-birthdays-may-twenty-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Birthdays: May twenty-second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al Simmons, nicknamed &quot;Bucketfoot,&quot; was twice World Series champ.<br \/>\nHe had his best years at the plate in Connie Mack&#8217;s A&#8217;s camp.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy John, soft-throwing lefty, pitched twenty six seasons.<br \/>\nA sinker ball and ligament replacement were the reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Mesa&#8217;s best year closing came with Tribe, no doubt.<br \/>\nBut in series seventh game could not get Marlins out.<\/p>\n<p>Julian Tavares labored for eleven teams.<br \/>\nThe righty won a ring with Sox, but was quite odd, it seems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Simmons, nicknamed &quot;Bucketfoot,&quot; was twice World Series champ. He had his best years at the plate in Connie Mack&#8217;s A&#8217;s camp. Tommy John, soft-throwing lefty, pitched twenty six seasons. A sinker ball and ligament &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=437\">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-437","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":361,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=361","url_meta":{"origin":437,"position":0},"title":"Baseball Birthdays: April first","author":"Rick Young","date":"April 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Rod Kanehl played second base for hapless early Mets. 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