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He let two teams move from New York and caused a lot of grief. Kirk Gibson hit a big home run and limped around the bases. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=447\">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-447","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":472,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=472","url_meta":{"origin":447,"position":0},"title":"Baseball Birthdays: June fourteenth","author":"Rick Young","date":"June 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Don Newcombe pitched his best years for beloved Brooklyn Bums. 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