{"id":59065,"date":"2015-04-02T16:17:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T20:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59065"},"modified":"2015-04-02T16:18:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T20:18:48","slug":"84-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59065","title":{"rendered":"84 Years Ago Today . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig struck out.\u00a0 That happened in an exhibition game against the Chattanooga Lookouts while the Yankees were en route home from spring training to start the season.<\/p>\n<p>In and of itself, that would be only mildly interesting.\u00a0 However, the pitcher who struck them out was a bit unusual.<\/p>\n<p>The individual was a 17 year old youth who&#8217;d just been signed to the Lookouts a few days previously.\u00a0 Their name was &#8220;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jackie_Mitchell\">Jackie Mitchell<\/a><\/em>&#8220;.\u00a0 And no &#8211; &#8220;Jackie&#8221; here isn&#8217;t a short for &#8220;Jack&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>David Schoenfield at ESPN <em><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/sweetspot\/post\/_\/id\/56180\/tbt-the-girl-who-struck-out-babe-ruth-and-lou-gehrig\">has an article today<\/a><\/em> concerning the event.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a baseball fan, it&#8217;s worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>Well done, Ms. Mitchell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig struck out.\u00a0 That happened in an exhibition game &hellip; <a title=\"84 Years Ago Today . . .\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59065\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">84 Years Ago Today . . .<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}