{"id":83,"date":"2010-04-06T07:03:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T12:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=83"},"modified":"2010-04-06T07:03:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T12:03:28","slug":"there-were-miners-and-there-were-bankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"There were Miners, and there were Bankers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Joplin had its first professional baseball team in the form of the Colts who became the Miners, it did not mean that others put down their gloves and bats.\u00a0 One group of men who continued to play, perhaps as an amateur team, were the Joplin Bankers.\u00a0 Note, the team consisted of the bare minimum to play with one man for every position.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24317830@N04\/4495620450\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The 1907 Joplin Bankers\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2708\/4495620450_aa55bbe41f.jpg\" alt=\"1907 Joplin Bankers baseball team\" width=\"500\" height=\"464\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 1907 Joplin Bankers baseball team.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Source: The Joplin Globe<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Joplin had its first professional baseball team in the form of the Colts who became the Miners, it did not mean that others put down their gloves and bats.\u00a0 One group of men who continued to play, perhaps as an amateur team, were the Joplin Bankers.\u00a0 Note, the team consisted of the bare minimum [&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],"tags":[49,2908,328,335,336,337,31,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"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=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}