{"id":13386,"date":"2018-10-29T20:49:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgethomasclark.com\/?p=13386"},"modified":"2018-10-29T22:40:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T22:40:49","slug":"little-league-blast-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgethomasclark.com\/little-league-blast-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Little League Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"
Watching the muscular Red Sox crush four homers and the Dodgers in game five to win the World Series, I\u2019m reminded that at age ten I was the youngest and skinniest boy on our Triple A baseball team and didn\u2019t play much and when I did I always struck out. Late in the season I got to bat against a pitcher I\u2019d yearned the face, the only guy in the league who threw lots of changeups, the only pitch slow enough for me. Still I swung late but hit a line drive the right fielder playing shallow fielded on the first hop and fired to first keeping me O for the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Watching the muscular Red Sox crush four homers and the Dodgers in game five to win the World Series, I\u2019m reminded that at age ten I was the youngest and skinniest boy on our Triple A baseball team and didn\u2019t play much and when I did I always struck out. Late in the season I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,563,387],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n