{"id":4447,"date":"2013-06-10T15:38:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T21:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2013-10-19T23:24:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T05:24:03","slug":"now-heres-a-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/rummaging-around-in-the-bag\/4447\/now-heres-a-lineup","title":{"rendered":"Now Here&#8217;s a Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first induction ceremony for the Baseball Hall of Fame took place 74 years ago on June 12, 1939, and the talent on hand was fairly staggering:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4448\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/06\/Hall-of-Fame.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4448\" class=\" wp-image-4448  \" alt=\"Hall of Fame\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/06\/Hall-of-Fame.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/06\/Hall-of-Fame.jpg 622w, https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/06\/Hall-of-Fame-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front row, left to right: Eddie Collins, Babe Ruth, Connie Mack, Cy Young.<br \/>Back row: Honus Wagner, Pete Alexander, Tris Speaker, Nap Lajoie, George Sisler, Walter Johnson.<br \/>(National Baseball Hall of Fame Library)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ty Cobb was there for the day, but arrived too late to raise the photo&#8217;s collective lifetime batting average. Which is what, I wonder? There must be some baseball stat junkie out there who knows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first induction ceremony for the Baseball Hall of Fame took place 74 years ago on June 12, 1939, and&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/rummaging-around-in-the-bag\/4447\/now-heres-a-lineup\" title=\"ReadNow Here&#8217;s a Lineup\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":4448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[670,19164],"tags":[1180,1193,4114],"class_list":["post-4447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rummaging-around-in-the-bag","category-offcourse","tag-baseball","tag-cooperstown","tag-hall-of-fame"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/06\/Hall-of-Fame.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4451,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions\/4451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tombedell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}