{"id":6136,"date":"2014-01-28T21:23:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T02:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6136"},"modified":"2014-01-28T21:23:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T02:23:23","slug":"seahawks-qb-russell-wilson-to-get-baseball-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/28\/seahawks-qb-russell-wilson-to-get-baseball-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks QB Russell Wilson to get baseball card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6137 alignright\" alt=\"russellwilsoncard\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/russellwilsoncard.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/russellwilsoncard.jpg 400w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/russellwilsoncard-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson was selected by the Texas Rangers in the Rule 5 draft earlier this winter and now he will appear on a limited edition baseball card.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson will have a limited edition card in the Topps&#8217; Bowman series. The card should hit the shelves in packs beginning on April 30.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sports fans have always been fascinated by the two-sport star,&#8221; Topps vice president of product development Clay Luraschi said, via <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/dallas\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/10364415\/russell-wilson-seattle-seahawks-wear-texas-rangers-jersey-baseball-card\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN<\/a>. &#8220;When you talk to fans about amazing athletes, you always hear the name Bo Jackson come up. And whenever you have an athlete that could potentially be a two-sport star, there&#8217;s always a lot of buzz about him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Will he ever play for the Rangers? We don&#8217;t know. But we thought we&#8217;d make a card to let people know what it would look like if he did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wilson previously appeared on Bowman Draft and Topps Pro Debut Series cards in 2010 while a member of the Colorado Rockies organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson was selected by the Texas Rangers in the Rule 5 draft earlier this winter and now he will appear on a limited edition baseball card. Wilson will have a limited edition card in the Topps&#8217; Bowman series. The card should hit the shelves in packs beginning on April 30. &#8220;Sports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501,558,12],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-russell-wilson","11":"tag-texas-rangers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136","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=6136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6136"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}