{"id":16354,"date":"2020-07-07T09:07:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T15:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16354"},"modified":"2020-07-06T19:12:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T01:12:44","slug":"book-11-of-52-stuck-on-the-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/book-11-of-52-stuck-on-the-sox\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 11 (of 52) &#8211; Stuck On The Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16355\" style=\"width: 368px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/stucksox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16355\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16355\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/stucksox.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/stucksox.jpg 358w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/stucksox-170x300.jpg 170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stuck On The Sox &#8211; Rich Lindberg<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This rather light-hearted history of the White Sox, focused primarily from the early 50s until its publication in 1978, comes from noted Chicago historian Rich Lindberg.\u00a0 I was intrigued when I saw the cover in a Twitter post by one of the NBCSN flunkies, so I ran out to Amazon and found a used copy for a reasonable price.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, this really wasn&#8217;t worth it.\u00a0 Aside from 1977, the mid-to-late 70s was not really a great time in White Sox history, and, because of my age, it isn&#8217;t a time that I really relate to.\u00a0 Yeah, there were some names in there, but, for the most part, my life isn&#8217;t improved by having read this book.\u00a0 That said, it was less than 200 pages, so if you happen across it, why not give it a shot?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This rather light-hearted history of the White Sox, focused primarily from the early 50s until its publication in 1978, comes from noted Chicago historian Rich Lindberg.\u00a0 I was intrigued when I saw the cover in a Twitter post by one of the NBCSN flunkies, so I ran out to Amazon and found a used copy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,34],"tags":[2890,8169,9013,9012,49],"class_list":["post-16354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","category-baseball","tag-amazon","tag-nbc-sports-chicago","tag-rich-lindberg","tag-stuck-on-the-sox","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16354","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=16354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16357,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16354\/revisions\/16357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}