{"id":1502,"date":"2014-04-28T12:52:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T16:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2021-05-15T19:43:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T23:43:14","slug":"the-story-of-two-yankee-catchers-berra-dickey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/?p=1502","title":{"rendered":"The story of two Yankee catchers: Berra &#038; Dickey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new addition to the site by Marty Appel from The National Pastime Museum:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.appelpr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/berra-dickey.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1504 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.appelpr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/berra-dickey.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"berra-dickey\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.appelpr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/berra-dickey.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.appelpr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/berra-dickey.jpg?resize=50%2C50 50w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.appelpr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/berra-dickey.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.appelpr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/berra-dickey.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>This is the story of two Yankee catchers and how the legacy of one soared while the other remained in place. In other words, it is the story of how one player can get better after retirement, and the other not, even though neither has had another hit nor thrown out another runner in all these years. We are talking about Bill Dickey and Yogi Berra, both of whom had their uniform No. 8 retired, the only time two players had one number retired. <a title=\"National Pastime Museum: Berra \u2013 Dickey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/?page_id=1495\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new addition to the site by Marty Appel from The National Pastime Museum: This is the story of two Yankee catchers and how the legacy of one soared while the other remained in place. In other words, it is&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/?p=1502\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21,20],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-byline-marty-appel","tag-dickey","tag-yogi-berra"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4s5bl-oe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3524,"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/3524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}