{"id":439,"date":"2014-05-24T08:22:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T12:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2014-05-24T08:22:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T12:22:02","slug":"baseball-birthdays-may-twenty-fourth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Birthdays: May twenty-fourth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ellie Rodriguez had his moments, splitting catching chores.<br \/>\nHe was behind the plate for Nolan&#8217;s no-no number four.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby Brown was not the Doc nor A.L. President.<br \/>\nFrom Jays to Yanks to Mariners, then Padres: how he went.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Ducey was Canadian and broke in with the Jays.<br \/>\nHis final club was Montreal, and then they parted ways.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Penny pitched for six teams, two of them a series winner.<br \/>\nHe threw quite hard and always looked as though he&#8217;d just had dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellie Rodriguez had his moments, splitting catching chores. He was behind the plate for Nolan&#8217;s no-no number four. Bobby Brown was not the Doc nor A.L. President. From Jays to Yanks to Mariners, then Padres: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=439\">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-439","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":428,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=428","url_meta":{"origin":439,"position":0},"title":"Baseball Birthdays: May sixteenth","author":"Rick Young","date":"May 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Dave Philley was a Phillie once, and if that seems prophetic, He also played in Philadelphia as an Athletic. 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