{"id":2726,"date":"2016-03-06T20:16:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T01:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appelpr.com\/?page_id=2726"},"modified":"2016-04-06T23:49:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T03:49:59","slug":"march-2016-mlb-com-talking-baseball-with-marty-appel-you-better-believe-it","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/?page_id=2726","title":{"rendered":"March 2016: MLB.com: Talking Baseball with Marty Appel: <i>You Better Believe It<\/>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 3, 2016: Marty Appel &#8211; former Public Relations director for the Yankees &#8211; gives Ed his firsthand account of quite possibly the strangest trade in Major League history when Yankees pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich decided to swap wives during the spring of 1973. Appel and Ed also reminisce about the retirement of Mickey Mantle on March 1, 1969, and the impact Mantle&#8217;s retirement had on the entire Yankees organization. <a href=\"http:\/\/MLB.com: Talking Baseball with Ed Randall You Better Believe It\" target=\"_blank\">MLB.com Talking Baseball with Ed Randall<\/a> (25 minutes)<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2726-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/030316_talkingbaseball_edrandall_appel.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/030316_talkingbaseball_edrandall_appel.mp3\">http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/030316_talkingbaseball_edrandall_appel.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 3, 2016: Marty Appel &#8211; former Public Relations director for the Yankees &#8211; gives Ed his firsthand account of quite possibly the strangest trade in Major League history when Yankees pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich decided to swap&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/?page_id=2726\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":652,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2726","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4s5bl-HY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2727,"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2726\/revisions\/2727"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}