{"id":490,"date":"2014-06-29T06:16:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T10:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=490"},"modified":"2014-06-29T06:16:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T10:16:22","slug":"baseball-birthdays-june-twenty-ninth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Birthdays: June twenty-ninth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wilbert Robinson breathed baseball; life was just a hobby.<br \/>\nEighteen years he managed Brooklyn, nicknamed &quot;Uncle Robbie.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Nippy&quot; Jones was hit on foot by pitch in series game.<br \/>\nA turning point, shoe polish on the ball confirmed his claim.<\/p>\n<p>Harmon Killebrew was six times A.L. homer champ,<br \/>\nThe Hall-of-Famer&#8217;s best years spent in Senator\/Twin camp.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Shaw beat Sandy Koufax in a one-oh series duel.<br \/>\nHe once balked five times in a game and that was not too cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilbert Robinson breathed baseball; life was just a hobby. Eighteen years he managed Brooklyn, nicknamed &quot;Uncle Robbie.&quot; &quot;Nippy&quot; Jones was hit on foot by pitch in series game. A turning point, shoe polish on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=490\">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-490","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":483,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=483","url_meta":{"origin":490,"position":0},"title":"Baseball Birthdays: June twenty-third","author":"Rick Young","date":"June 23, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Karl Spooner struck out fifteen in his rookie Brooklyn win, But hurt his arm next spring and he was never good again. Tom Haller was a catcher who knew how to call a game. 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