{"id":3739,"date":"2010-03-26T13:02:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T20:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/?p=3739"},"modified":"2010-03-26T13:02:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T20:02:29","slug":"touring-the-bases-with-ed-herrmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/touring-the-bases-with-ed-herrmann\/","title":{"rendered":"Touring the Bases With&#8230;Ed Herrmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The grandson of pitcher Marty Herrmann, Ed, a catcher, debuted with the Chicago White Sox in 1967, then spent 11 years in the majors before ending his career with Montreal in 1978 as Gary Carter&#8217;s backup.\u00c2\u00a0 In 1972, Herrmann caught all 49 of Wilbur Woods&#8217; starts, the most for a battery since 1884 when Sam Trott caught all of pitcher Hardie Henderson&#8217;s starts for the American Association&#8217;s Baltimore Orioles.\u00c2\u00a0 Herrmann was named to the American League All-Star team in 1974 and caught a no-hitter by Astros hurler Larry Dierker in 1976.\u00c2\u00a0 Click <a href=\"http:\/\/mondaynightsports.net\/clips27.php\">here to watch a video of a conversation<\/a> I had with Herrmann.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bob Lazzari is an award-winning sports columnist for both    Connecticut\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <\/em><em>Valley  Times<\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysportsday.com\/\">NY Sports Day<\/a>,  where his    \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sports Roundup\u00e2\u20ac\u009d column is featured weekly. He is a member of  the    Connecticut Sports Writers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Alliance and host of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/mondaynightsports.net\/\">Monday Night Sports Talk<\/a>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a  cable television show on CTV\/Channel 14 in Connecticut.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grandson of pitcher Marty Herrmann, Ed, a catcher, debuted with the Chicago White Sox in 1967, then spent 11 years in the majors before ending his career with Montreal in 1978 as Gary Carter&#8217;s backup.\u00c2\u00a0 In 1972, Herrmann caught all 49 of Wilbur Woods&#8217; starts, the most for a battery since 1884 when Sam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[297,1764,4936,759,4934,180,5559,5560,565,5130,170,177,176,175,4935,2488,1556,4937,5562,168],"class_list":["post-3739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-11-years","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-cable-television","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-connecticut-sports","tag-ctv","tag-ed-herrmann","tag-gary-carter","tag-hurler","tag-larry-dierker","tag-lazzari","tag-monday-night","tag-night-sports","tag-ny-sports","tag-sports-columnist","tag-sports-writers","tag-star-team","tag-television-show","tag-wilbur-woods","tag-winning-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739","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\/730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}