{"id":13736,"date":"2018-07-09T08:39:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T14:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=13736"},"modified":"2018-11-11T12:23:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T18:23:42","slug":"book-13-of-52-teammate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/book-13-of-52-teammate\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 13 (of 52) &#8211; Teammate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13796\" style=\"width: 341px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/book-13-of-52-teammate\/dr_teammate\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13796\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13796\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13796\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/dr_teammate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/dr_teammate.jpg 331w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/dr_teammate-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teammate: My Journey In Baseball And A World Series For The Ages &#8211; David Ross and Don Yaeger<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When David Ross announced that he would be retiring following the 2016 season, he agreed to keep a journal to use as the basis for a memoir about his career.\u00a0 Little did he know that the season would end with the Cubs finally breaking their 108 year curse and winning the World Series, or that he would hit a home run in his final at bat in game 7 against the Indians.\u00a0 Using that magical season as the through line, Ross tells tales of his career and how he learned to become a good teammate.<\/p>\n<p>Ross, alongside co-authot Don Yaeger, does a good job of switching between his personal story and the trip through the 2016 season.\u00a0 His is one of the surprisingly few books written about the season, and the only one from an insider.\u00a0 From that perspective, it was well worth the read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When David Ross announced that he would be retiring following the 2016 season, he agreed to keep a journal to use as the basis for a memoir about his career.\u00a0 Little did he know that the season would end with the Cubs finally breaking their 108 year curse and winning the World Series, or that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[6980,120,7366,8068,115,8067],"class_list":["post-13736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-2016-world-series","tag-cubs","tag-david-ross","tag-don-yaeger","tag-indians","tag-teammate-my-journey-in-baseball-and-a-world-series-for-the-ages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13736"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13991,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13736\/revisions\/13991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}