{"id":1939,"date":"2014-11-07T16:52:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T21:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appelpr.com\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2014-12-02T13:46:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T18:46:23","slug":"just-added-mel-ott-his-enduring-home-run-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/?p=1939","title":{"rendered":"Just added: Mel Ott &#038; His Enduring Home Run Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.appelpr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Mel-Ott5.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1930\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.appelpr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Mel-Ott5.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"Mel Ott5\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.appelpr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Mel-Ott5.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.appelpr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Mel-Ott5.jpg?resize=50%2C50 50w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.appelpr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Mel-Ott5.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-center\"><a title=\"National Pastime Museum: Mel Ott &amp; His Enduring Home Run Record\" href=\"http:\/\/appelpr.com\/?page_id=1924\"><strong>Mel Ott &amp; His Enduring Home Run Record<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"content-center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"content-center\">The tragic death of St. Louis Cardinals rookie Oscar Taveras during the World Series, victim of an auto accident in the Dominican Republic, brings to mind another ballplayer who died a similar death, albeit long after his distinguished career had ended.<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-center\">Mel Ott has been dead for 56 years now, retired for 67, and only those approaching or into their ninth decade really remember him by sight as one of the most popular and successful players baseball has ever produced. <a title=\"National Pastime Museum: Mel Ott &amp; His Enduring Home Run Record\" href=\"http:\/\/appelpr.com\/?page_id=1924\">more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mel Ott &amp; His Enduring Home Run Record The tragic death of St. Louis Cardinals rookie Oscar Taveras during the World Series, victim of an auto accident in the Dominican Republic, brings to mind another ballplayer who died a similar&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/?p=1939\" 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":[12],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-byline-marty-appel","tag-mel-ott"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4s5bl-vh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","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=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941,"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions\/1941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.appelpr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}