{"id":4050,"date":"2010-04-06T21:23:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T04:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/?p=4050"},"modified":"2010-04-06T21:23:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T04:23:17","slug":"touring-the-bases-with-ron-kittle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/06\/touring-the-bases-with-ron-kittle\/","title":{"rendered":"Touring the Bases With&#8230;Ron Kittle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right-handed slugger Ron Kittle belted 90 homers, drove in 247 runs and batted .337 between Double-A and Triple-A from 1981-1982 before settling in as the Chicago White Sox&#8217;s full-time left fielder in 1983.\u00c2\u00a0 His pyrotechnics display continued in the majors when he slammed 35 homers and drove in 100 runs in his rookie season, earning him an All-Star berth\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhe went 1-for-2 with a run scored in the Midsummer Classic\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand A.L. Rookie of the Year honors.\u00c2\u00a0 He didn&#8217;t reach the heights expected of him, but he played 10 seasons in the majors, averaged a homer every 15.4 at-bats and launched seven homers onto Comiskey Park&#8217;s left field roof.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mondaynightsports.net\/clips22.php\">Click here to watch a video of a conversation I had with Ron Kittle<\/a>.<\/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>Right-handed slugger Ron Kittle belted 90 homers, drove in 247 runs and batted .337 between Double-A and Triple-A from 1981-1982 before settling in as the Chicago White Sox&#8217;s full-time left fielder in 1983.\u00c2\u00a0 His pyrotechnics display continued in the majors when he slammed 35 homers and drove in 100 runs in his rookie season, earning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-touring-the-bases-with"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050","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=4050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}