{"id":469,"date":"2011-06-20T19:54:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T00:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=469"},"modified":"2011-06-20T19:54:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T00:54:42","slug":"be-like-the-mick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"Be Like The Mick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24317830@N04\/5854538329\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1910's Joplin Miners \" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2568\/5854538329_346dbe70b5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of the Miners from some time around 1910, possibly at Cox Field.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Long an institution of Joplin, the Miners baseball team entertained Joplin crowds for more than half a century.  Among one of their greatest, if not greatest, players to wear the name Joplin emblazoned across the chest, was Mickey Mantle.  For the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebbets.com\/product\/JoplinMiners1950Road\/BaseballJerseys\">low price of nearly $200 (okay, not that low), you can own a replica of the 1950 jersey that the Mick wore courtesy of Ebbets.com<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a bit of flannel history.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long an institution of Joplin, the Miners baseball team entertained Joplin crowds for more than half a century. Among one of their greatest, if not greatest, players to wear the name Joplin emblazoned across the chest, was Mickey Mantle. For the low price of nearly $200 (okay, not that low), you can own a replica [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,273,465],"tags":[1879,1878,2908,328,31,351,1877],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469"}],"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=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}