{"id":477,"date":"2014-06-17T06:49:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T10:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=477"},"modified":"2014-06-17T06:49:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T10:49:18","slug":"baseball-birthdays-june-seventeenth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Birthdays: June seventeenth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Willard Nixon spent nine years upon the Red Sox hill.<br \/>\nTurned out it was only Yankees that the righty&#8217;d kill.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Concepcion played nineteen years for Reds at short.<br \/>\nHe was a cog in the Machine that one time ruled the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Charboneau played great his rookie year, then disappeared.<br \/>\nHe still ranks high upon the list of Baseball&#8217;s All Time Weird.<\/p>\n<p>Shawn Abner was picked number one in nineteen eighty-four.<br \/>\nEleven homers later, he was closing baseball&#8217;s door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willard Nixon spent nine years upon the Red Sox hill. Turned out it was only Yankees that the righty&#8217;d kill. Dave Concepcion played nineteen years for Reds at short. He was a cog in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=477\">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-477","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":400,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=400","url_meta":{"origin":477,"position":0},"title":"Baseball Birthdays: April twenty-eighth","author":"Rick Young","date":"April 28, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Tom Sturdivant twice won sixteen in Yankee pennant seasons, Then bounced around for several years; arm troubles were the reasons. Pedro Ramos lasted fifteen years of righty tosses. 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