{"id":486,"date":"2014-06-25T06:25:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T10:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=486"},"modified":"2014-06-25T06:25:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T10:25:19","slug":"baseball-birthdays-june-twenty-fifth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Birthdays: June twenty-fifth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Kuhel amassed two thousand hits and had a funky name.<br \/>\nWhile with the Senators he had three triples in a game.<\/p>\n<p>Dick Drago pitched for thirteen years and lost more than he won.<br \/>\nWith Angels he gave up Hank Aaron&#8217;s very last home run.<\/p>\n<p>Clay Kirby pitched for eight years, won a series ring as Red.<br \/>\nRetired, had a heart attack, at forty-three was dead.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Delgado&#8217;s twelve years with the Blue Jays brought him fame.<br \/>\nThe Puerto Rican slugger hit four homers in a game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Kuhel amassed two thousand hits and had a funky name. While with the Senators he had three triples in a game. Dick Drago pitched for thirteen years and lost more than he won. With &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=486\">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-486","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":376,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=376","url_meta":{"origin":486,"position":0},"title":"Baseball Birthdays: April eighth","author":"Rick Young","date":"April 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Charlie Maxwell played left field for Detroit and won many hearts. 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