{"id":458,"date":"2014-06-03T00:13:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T04:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=458"},"modified":"2014-06-03T00:13:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T04:13:11","slug":"baseball-birthdays-june-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Birthdays: June third"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jim Gentile, first sacker, had best years in Baltimore.
\nFive slams in one season. Only Mattingly has more.<\/p>\n

Jim Dwyer played for seven teams, his best years with the O’s.
\nHe got the nickname Pig Pen, perhaps for his dirty clothes?<\/p>\n

Carl Everett was an outfielder who seemed to thrive on friction.
\nAmongst his odd pronouncements was that dinosaurs were fiction.<\/p>\n

Steve Lyons, nicknamed "Psycho," was oft prone to bizarre antic.
\nRetired now, a broadcaster who must make censors frantic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jim Gentile, first sacker, had best years in Baltimore. Five slams in one season. Only Mattingly has more. Jim Dwyer played for seven teams, his best years with the O’s. He got the nickname Pig … 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-458","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":443,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=443","url_meta":{"origin":458,"position":0},"title":"Baseball Birthdays: May twenty-sixth","author":"Rick Young","date":"May 26, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Darrell Evans helped out last time Tigers won it all. 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