{"id":481,"date":"2014-06-21T05:35:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T09:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=481"},"modified":"2014-06-21T05:35:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T09:35:47","slug":"baseball-birthdays-june-twenty-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Birthdays: June twenty-first"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eddie Lopat had great success in one five-year chunk.
\nHelped Yanks win five series with a vast array of junk.<\/p>\n

Charlie Moore spent many Brewers years behind the dish.
\nNow he’s less well known than Charlie Moore who catches fish.<\/p>\n

Rick Sutcliffe won Rookie of Year, later won a Cy.
\nThen went to the broadcast booth, where pitchers go to die.<\/p>\n

Donovan Osborne came to Cards as lefty wunderkind.
\nBut shoulder injuries left him to try and catch the wind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eddie Lopat had great success in one five-year chunk. Helped Yanks win five series with a vast array of junk. Charlie Moore spent many Brewers years behind the dish. Now he’s less well known than … 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-481","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":382,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=382","url_meta":{"origin":481,"position":0},"title":"Baseball Birthdays: April fourteenth","author":"Rick Young","date":"April 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Pete Rose broke Cobb's hit record, but won't make the Hall of Fame. 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