{"id":1183,"date":"2009-03-21T09:10:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T15:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2009-03-22T08:18:42","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T14:18:42","slug":"i-am-the-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1183","title":{"rendered":"I Am The Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can now name all 232 Baseball Hall of Famers on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sporcle.com\/games\/mlbhalloffamers.php\">sporcle<\/a>.  It helps that I&#8217;m a baseball nut, so was able to name about 150 off the top of my head.  The process is made difficult by the inclusion of Negro League players and 19th-century players &#8212; most of whom are not well-represented in baseball folklore.  It&#8217;s more difficult to remember Luis Santop or John Clarkson than Babe Ruth.  I&#8217;d just re-read the Negro League section of Bill James Historical Abstract, which helped.  It also doesn&#8217;t help that the Veteran&#8217;s Committee got really stupid in the 1950&#8217;s and 1970&#8217;s and admitted a lot of guys who frankly don&#8217;t belong in the HOF.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I got &#8217;em all.  Eventually.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why these quizzes fascinate me, but they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can now name all 232 Baseball Hall of Famers on sporcle. It helps that I&#8217;m a baseball nut, so was able to name about 150 off the top of my head. The process is made difficult by the inclusion of Negro League players and 19th-century players &#8212; most of whom are not well-represented in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1183\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Am The Champion<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-j5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}