{"id":1643,"date":"2007-11-16T09:41:04","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T14:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2009-05-30T09:45:44","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T14:45:44","slug":"speaking-of-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1643","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Nuxhall &#8211; legendary baseball broadcaster and trivia answer (the youngest person ever to pitch in the majors) <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2007\/baseball\/mlb\/11\/16\/bc.bbo.obit.nuxhall.ap\/\">dead at 79<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nuxhall&#8217;s place in baseball lore was secured the moment he stepped onto a big-league field. With major league rosters depleted during World War II, he got a chance to pitch in relief for the Reds on June 10, 1944.<\/p>\n<p>No one in modern baseball history has played in the majors at such a young age &#8212; 15 years, 10 months, 11 days old. He got two outs against St. Louis before losing his composure, then went eight years before pitching for the Reds again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After which he had a 14 year career in the majors, followed by four more decades in the broadcast booth.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He retired as a full-time radio broadcaster after the 2004 season, the 60th anniversary of his historic pitching debut.<\/p>\n<p>Nuxhall and play-by-play announcer Marty Brennaman described the Big Red Machine&#8217;s two World Series titles in the 1970s, Pete Rose&#8217;s return as player-manager and then banishment for gambling in the 1980s, and another World Series championship in 1990.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The move to get him into Cooperstown &#8211; as a broadcaster &#8211; has already begun.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So will Hugh Hewitt pronounce the name right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Nuxhall &#8211; legendary baseball broadcaster and trivia answer (the youngest person ever to pitch in the majors) dead at 79 Nuxhall&#8217;s place in baseball lore was secured the moment he stepped onto a big-league field. With major league rosters depleted during World War II, he got a chance to pitch in relief for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoriam","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}