{"id":3290,"date":"2014-02-07T17:19:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T17:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.effgen.us\/?p=3290"},"modified":"2014-09-05T13:01:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T13:01:07","slug":"so-long-ralph-kiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/?p=3290","title":{"rendered":"So long Ralph Kiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/kiner-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"Raplh Kiner\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/kiner-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/kiner-872x1024.jpg 872w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ralph Kiner passed away yesterday and along with him a bit of baseball history. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/baseball\/mets\/hall-famer-longtime-mets-broadcaster-kiner-dead-91-article-1.1604801\" target=\"_blank\">The slugging and broadcast legend lived a long and full baseball life.<\/a> One of the best stories I found on Kiner was Hank Greenberg&#8217;s segement in the must-read baseball classic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Glory-Their-Times-Perennial\/dp\/0061994715\" title=\"The Glory of Their Times\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Glory of Their Times<\/em><\/a>. Greenberg and Kiner played one season together for the 1947 Pirates. It was Greenberg&#8217;s last and Kiner&#8217;s second. There was an amazing bit of mentoring there. It is worth the time to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Kiner passed away yesterday and along with him a bit of baseball history. The slugging and broadcast legend lived a long and full baseball life. One of the best stories I found on Kiner was Hank Greenberg&#8217;s segement in the must-read baseball classic, The Glory of Their Times. Greenberg&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[33,39,88,395],"class_list":["post-3290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-2","tag-autograph","tag-baseball","tag-collection","tag-ralph-kiner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3293,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions\/3293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}