{"id":1083,"date":"2010-04-02T14:12:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T14:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2010\/04\/02\/john-birdzell-61-big-baseball-fan\/"},"modified":"2010-04-02T14:12:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T14:12:26","slug":"john-birdzell-61-big-baseball-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2010\/04\/02\/john-birdzell-61-big-baseball-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"John Birdzell &#039;61 &#8211; BIG Baseball Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" align=\"top\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/birdzell_MG_9261.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Birdzell &#8217;61<\/strong> put together a great display of baseball memorabilia for the recent Liberal Arts Symposium on Baseball. &nbsp;John&#8217;s a baseball fan of the highest magnitude&#8230;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"284\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/birdzell2_MG_9264(1).jpg\" \/>Here&#8217;s a close up of one of the display&#8217;s &#8211; this one goes back a while. &nbsp;It&#8217;s a catcher&#8217;s mask from back in thew 1920s. &nbsp;They certainly don&#8217;t make them like that anymore &#8211; thankfully.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/birdzell3_MG_9234.jpg\" \/>John, a Cubs fan, had a ball at the Symposium and everyone certainly enjoyed John &#8216;s displays. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Birdzell &#8217;61 put together a great display of baseball memorabilia for the recent Liberal Arts Symposium on Baseball. &nbsp;John&#8217;s a baseball fan of the highest magnitude&#8230;&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a close up of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}