{"id":124,"date":"2007-10-25T23:24:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T06:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/25\/baseballs-best-chapter-five-excerpt-added\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T23:24:51","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T06:24:51","slug":"baseballs-best-chapter-five-excerpt-added","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/25\/baseballs-best-chapter-five-excerpt-added\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball&#8217;s Best: Chapter Five Excerpt Added"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another chapter excerpt from Mike Hoban\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book, <em>Baseball\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Best: The TRUE Hall of Famers<\/em>, has been added to the site.\u00c2\u00a0 In Chapter Five, Dr. Hoban asks whether or not it&#8217;s fair to use the same criteria to evaluate short but great careers, like that of Jackie Robinson, and longer careers.\u00c2\u00a0 He evaluates the careers of a handful of players who played in fewer than 1800 games<span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'\">\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<o:p><\/o:p><\/span>men like Hank Greenberg, Mickey Cochrane and Kirby Puckett<span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'\">\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand also discusses several more Hall of Famers who did not meet the minimum requirements based on his NEWS Hall of Fame Monitor scores.\u00c2\u00a0 <o:p><\/o:p><\/span>  <a href=\"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/chapter-five-a-short-and-great-career\/\">Check it out<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another chapter excerpt from Mike Hoban\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book, Baseball\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Best: The TRUE Hall of Famers, has been added to the site.\u00c2\u00a0 In Chapter Five, Dr. Hoban asks whether or not it&#8217;s fair to use the same criteria to evaluate short but great careers, like that of Jackie Robinson, and longer careers.\u00c2\u00a0 He evaluates the careers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}