{"id":26,"date":"2010-03-01T10:14:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T16:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=26"},"modified":"2010-03-01T10:15:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T16:15:50","slug":"before-the-joplin-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Before the Joplin Miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Joplin no longer has a professional or semi-professional baseball team, perhaps its best known team was the Joplin Miners, where Mickey Mantle began his baseball career.\u00a0 Perhaps the city&#8217;s least known team may have also been its first.\u00a0 One of the first mentions of a team, and a brief one at that, appeared in 1880:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24317830@N04\/4397995641\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"News clipping on Joplin Blue Stockings\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4057\/4397995641_5f5a23c154.jpg\" alt=\"A reference to the Joplin Blue Stockings\" width=\"500\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Joplin Blue Stockings, perhaps one of Joplin&#39;s earliest baseball teams.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Source: Joplin Daily Herald<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Joplin no longer has a professional or semi-professional baseball team, perhaps its best known team was the Joplin Miners, where Mickey Mantle began his baseball career.\u00a0 Perhaps the city&#8217;s least known team may have also been its first.\u00a0 One of the first mentions of a team, and a brief one at that, appeared in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,38,40],"tags":[49,30,32,52,50,51,31,8,11,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}