{"id":7843,"date":"2015-04-10T06:16:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T12:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=7843"},"modified":"2015-04-04T16:23:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T22:23:34","slug":"book-11-of-52-wild-pitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/book-11-of-52-wild-pitches\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 11 (of 52) &#8211; Wild Pitches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7864\" style=\"width: 241px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/wildpitches.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7864\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7864\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/wildpitches.jpg\" alt=\"Wild Pitches: Rumblings, Grumblings, and Reflections on the Game I Love - Jayson Stark\" width=\"231\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/wildpitches.jpg 231w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/wildpitches-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wild Pitches: Rumblings, Grumblings, and Reflections on the Game I Love &#8211; Jayson Stark<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I must admit, I was a bit disappointed to find out that this wasn&#8217;t a new work, but instead a collection of Jayson Stark&#8217;s columns from ESPN.com.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t bad, but it was\u00a0mostly columns that I had\u00a0already read in the past.\u00a0 That said, it was a good way to wind down spring training and await the beginning of the baseball season.<\/p>\n<p>The book collects Stark&#8217;s take on numerous stories over the years, including the collapse of the Cubs following the so-called\u00a0Steve Bartman incident in 2003 and the White Sox breaking through and winning the World Series in 2005.\u00a0 The Philadelphia-based Stark also includes numerous takes on the Phillies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit, I was a bit disappointed to find out that this wasn&#8217;t a new work, but instead a collection of Jayson Stark&#8217;s columns from ESPN.com.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t bad, but it was\u00a0mostly columns that I had\u00a0already read in the past.\u00a0 That said, it was a good way to wind down spring training and await [&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":[78,120,5543,5542,254,1482,49,5541],"class_list":["post-7843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","category-baseball","tag-2005-world-series","tag-cubs","tag-espn-com","tag-jayson-stark","tag-phillies","tag-steve-bartman","tag-white-sox","tag-wild-pitches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843","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=7843"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7870,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843\/revisions\/7870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}