{"id":5667,"date":"2013-12-17T12:46:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T17:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5667"},"modified":"2013-12-17T12:46:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T17:46:36","slug":"babe-ruth-signed-ball-for-sick-boy-hits-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/12\/17\/babe-ruth-signed-ball-for-sick-boy-hits-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Babe Ruth signed ball for sick boy hits auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5668\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5668\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/ruthbal.jpg\" alt=\"Via Grey Flannel Auctions\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5668\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/ruthbal.jpg 400w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/ruthbal-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/ruthbal-32x32.jpg 32w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/ruthbal-64x64.jpg 64w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/ruthbal-96x96.jpg 96w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/12\/ruthbal-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via Grey Flannel Auctions<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s one of the most colorful stories in the career of Babe Ruth. The Yankee slugger signed a ball for 11-year-old Johnny Sylvester and promised to hit a home run. <\/p>\n<p>Ruth responded by hitting three home runs in Game 4 of the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of debate about the details of Ruth and Sylvester&#8217;s condition but the ball has now hit the auction block. The auction will conclude on February 6th, 2014, Ruth&#8217;s 119th birthday. Also for auction is some memorabilia the boy receieved from football star Red Granage and tennis player Big Bill Tiden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of the most colorful stories in the career of Babe Ruth. The Yankee slugger signed a ball for 11-year-old Johnny Sylvester and promised to hit a home run. Ruth responded by hitting three home runs in Game 4 of the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals. There&#8217;s a lot of debate about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[575,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-5667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-babe-ruth","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5667"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}