{"id":19519,"date":"2012-02-08T13:40:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T21:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seamheads.com\/?p=19519"},"modified":"2012-02-08T19:00:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T03:00:38","slug":"picking-your-favorite-obscure-baseball-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/picking-your-favorite-obscure-baseball-figure\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking Your Favorite Obscure Baseball Figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I <a href=\"http:\/\/miscbaseball.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/09\/favorite-obscure-baseball-figure\/\">started a project on my blog<\/a> of asking fans to send in their picks for their favorite obscure baseball figure from the past. As the word &#8220;figure&#8221; indicates, the person didn&#8217;t have to be a player; it can be anyone employed within the game itself, by a team or by a league, including umpires, coaches, scouts, and front office personnel.<\/p>\n<p>My idea was that time and a focus on sabermetrics and efforts to determine who should be in the Hall of Fame have left many uniquely interesting and\/or appealing retired\/deceased baseball people by the wayside. Last year&#8217;s responses included a <a href=\"http:\/\/miscbaseball.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/03\/joe-cambria-washingto-nationals-scout-minor-league-owner-wheeler-dealer-etc\/\">generous article on Joe Cambria<\/a> by Seamheads editor Ted Leavengood. With spring training just about upon us, I&#8217;m bringing up the topic again and asking Seamheads for help in bringing to light some old baseball people who are worth remembering.<\/p>\n<p>If you have someone in mind, just put his name in the comments. I&#8217;m only asking for a name, but if you want to write a few sentences talking about your favorite obscure baseball figure (it can be a woman of course), that would be fine. <a href=\"http:\/\/miscbaseball.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/22\/celebrating-baseball-old-timer-lena-blackburne\/\">My choice is Lena Blackburne<\/a>, longtime baseball figure in every capacity from ballplayer to independent entrepreneur, and the man who got the <a href=\"http:\/\/miscbaseball.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/22\/opening-up-comiskey-park-in-1910\/\">White Sox&#8217;s first two hits<\/a> at the original Comiskey Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I started a project on my blog of asking fans to send in their picks for their favorite obscure baseball figure from the past. As the word &#8220;figure&#8221; indicates, the person didn&#8217;t have to be a player; it can be anyone employed within the game itself, by a team or by a league, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":601,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19519","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\/601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}