{"id":1525,"date":"2014-04-29T23:37:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T03:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2014-12-02T13:49:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T18:49:11","slug":"new-post-on-being-a-jewish-yankee-front-office-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/?p=1525","title":{"rendered":"New article: Chasing Dreams: The Yankee Front Office<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

As appears in Chasing Dreams: Baseball & Becoming American<\/i><\/h2>\n

\"Mantle\"<\/a>I wrote a letter to the New York Yankees public relations director in 1967, looking for summer employment.<\/p>\n

My credentials were modest \u2013 I was a knowledgeable baseball fan who was editor of my college newspaper.\u00a0 I had written sports while in high school for the suburban Rockland (NY)\u00a0 Journal-News. I assumed mine would be one of hundreds of similar letters and I would not hear back.\u00a0more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As appears in Chasing Dreams: Baseball & Becoming American I wrote a letter to the New York Yankees public relations director in 1967, looking for summer employment. My credentials were modest \u2013 I was a knowledgeable baseball fan who was… Continue Reading →<\/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":[19],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-byline-marty-appel","tag-ny-yankees"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4s5bl-oB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","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=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1706,"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}