{"id":468,"date":"2011-06-17T20:15:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T01:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=468"},"modified":"2011-06-17T20:15:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T01:15:49","slug":"baseball-not-just-for-the-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"Baseball, Not Just For The Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;ve discovered the baseball in Joplin played <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=271\">by men who were paid,<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=83\">by those who weren&#8217;t<\/a>, the sport wasn&#8217;t limited to adults.  In the below photograph, we&#8217;ve a team of boys, perhaps a high school team, who had banded together to form a formidable looking team.  Who knows, perhaps one of them eventually found himself donning a Miners&#8217; uniform.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24317830@N04\/5844086046\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Joplin Youth Baseball - Turn of the Century\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3274\/5844086046_252a1745bc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perhaps a high school baseball team from Joplin&#39;s earlier days.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Historic Joplin Collection<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;ve discovered the baseball in Joplin played by men who were paid, and by those who weren&#8217;t, the sport wasn&#8217;t limited to adults. In the below photograph, we&#8217;ve a team of boys, perhaps a high school team, who had banded together to form a formidable looking team. Who knows, perhaps one of them eventually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,273,264,35,39,465],"tags":[2908,1873,1871,328,50,31,1875,1876,1874,1870,1872],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468"}],"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=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}