{"id":472,"date":"2014-06-14T09:44:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T13:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=472"},"modified":"2014-06-14T09:44:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T13:44:20","slug":"baseball-birthdays-june-fourteenth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Birthdays: June fourteenth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don Newcombe pitched his best years for beloved Brooklyn Bums.<br \/>\nAmongst the great souls of the game, he&#8217;s as good as it comes.<\/p>\n<p>Herb Plews played for the Senators, the doormat of their day.<br \/>\nThe second baseman&#8217;s career year occurred in double-A.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Aponte pitched relief in baseball&#8217;s longest game.<br \/>\nThe righty hurler&#8217;s in the Venezuelan Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Laga&#8217;s career numbers for three teams in nine years stink.<br \/>\nIn one bad airbrushed baseball card, his uniform is pink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Newcombe pitched his best years for beloved Brooklyn Bums. Amongst the great souls of the game, he&#8217;s as good as it comes. Herb Plews played for the Senators, the doormat of their day. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=472\">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-472","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":480,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=480","url_meta":{"origin":472,"position":0},"title":"Baseball Birthdays: June twentieth","author":"Rick Young","date":"June 20, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Cuno\" Barragan caught two years with the Cubs and that was that. 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