{"id":4339,"date":"2007-12-13T02:17:10","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T09:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2007\/12\/13\/my-first-baseball-game\/"},"modified":"2007-12-13T02:17:10","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T09:17:10","slug":"my-first-baseball-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/13\/my-first-baseball-game\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Baseball Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThanks to Retrosheet, I can identify the first major league baseball game I ever saw in person, an epic 4-3 victory by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retrosheet.org\/boxesetc\/1959\/B07030NYA1959.htm\">the Yankees over the Senators<\/a> on July 3, 1959. Winning pitcher Whitey Ford  scored the winning run, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/d\/durenry01.shtml\">Ryne Duren<\/a> got the save, Mickey Mantle hit a single and Tony Kubek went 3-5 playing RF for some weird reason. I had remembered it as a 3-2 game, but was otherwise pretty accurate in my story-telling about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Retrosheet, I can identify the first major league baseball game I ever saw in person, an epic 4-3 victory by the Yankees over the Senators on July 3, 1959. Winning pitcher Whitey Ford scored the winning run, Ryne Duren got the save, Mickey Mantle hit a single and Tony Kubek went 3-5 playing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/13\/my-first-baseball-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My First Baseball Game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-17Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}