{"id":488,"date":"2014-06-27T00:22:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T04:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=488"},"modified":"2014-06-27T00:22:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T04:22:27","slug":"baseball-birthdays-june-twenty-seventh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Birthdays: June twenty-seventh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gus Zernial was A.L. homer champ in fifty-one.<br \/>\nHis baseball card the next year, balls-on-bat, was really fun.<\/p>\n<p>Eddie Kasko, ex-infielder, helmed Red Sox for four seasons.<br \/>\nHad winning record but no first place for Oriole reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Rico Petrocelli played both short and third, Red Sox his team.<br \/>\nHe and Yaz were all stars in the Sox failed &quot;Impossible Dream.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Jim Edmonds won eight gold gloves as an Angel and a Card.<br \/>\nHe hit with power, won a ring. He could patrol that yard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gus Zernial was A.L. homer champ in fifty-one. His baseball card the next year, balls-on-bat, was really fun. Eddie Kasko, ex-infielder, helmed Red Sox for four seasons. Had winning record but no first place for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=488\">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-488","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":404,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=404","url_meta":{"origin":488,"position":0},"title":"Baseball Birthdays: May second","author":"Rick Young","date":"May 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Eddie Collins' teams were series champions six times. Once was with the \"Black Sox,\" but he was absolved of crimes. 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