{"id":609,"date":"2015-07-01T07:35:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T11:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=609"},"modified":"2015-07-01T07:35:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T11:35:13","slug":"baseball-birthdays-july-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Birthdays: July first"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boots Poffenberger played in only fifty-seven games
\nbut arguably had one of the all-time baseball names.<\/p>\n

Frank Baumann’s ’60 ERA was league-best two-six-seven.
\nThe southpaw never matched that, his career mark: four-eleven.<\/p>\n

Billy Rohr was one strike from a no-no in first start.
\nAn Elston Howard single broke the Red Sox lefty’s heart.<\/p>\n

Nelson Cruz was not a basher back when he was clean.
\nBut PED’s turned him into a round-tripper machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boots Poffenberger played in only fifty-seven games but arguably had one of the all-time baseball names. Frank Baumann’s ’60 ERA was league-best two-six-seven. The southpaw never matched that, his career mark: four-eleven. Billy Rohr was … 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-609","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":396,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=396","url_meta":{"origin":609,"position":0},"title":"Baseball Birthdays: April twenty-fifth","author":"Rick Young","date":"April 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Pop\" Lloyd, the greatest shortstop in Negro league history, Is in the baseball Hall of Fame, his average: three-four-three. Fred Haney played just seven years, is not well known for them. He gained his fame as Braves skipper and then Angels' G.M. 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