{"id":1439,"date":"2016-12-05T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2016-12-05T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T01:00:00","slug":"the-big-unit-and-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=1439","title":{"rendered":"The Big Unit and Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I have your attention with that crazy title, I have to say I am pretty excited about what came in today&#8217;s mail. \u00a0First, I had sent a Craig Sager First Pitch insert card from the Topps Update series. \u00a0Craig has been battling cancer and it arrived today signed beautifully. \u00a0I wish him well in his fight.<br \/>\nNext was two packages from Tom Orr that he got signed at the recent Chicago Sun Times show. \u00a0The first box had my 3,000 K baseball. \u00a0I had all the living players who got 3,000 strikeouts except for Randy Johnson. \u00a0Tom got Randy to sign the baseball with his 4875 K total. \u00a0It looks awesome.<br \/>\nThe other package from Tom had a pair of Sports Illustrated magazines in it. \u00a0The first was the issue from 07.07.2003 that Kerry Wood signed. \u00a0I just need Mark Prior to finish it. \u00a0Also in this package was my 1980 US Olympic Hockey team signed SI. \u00a0I had all the hockey players on it except for Mark Pavlich. \u00a0Tom got Mark to sign it and it is now complete. \u00a0I was nervous of the Olympic SI and the baseball being shipped but Tom and the USPS came through!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I have your attention with that crazy title, I have to say I am pretty excited about what came in today&#8217;s mail. \u00a0First, I had sent a Craig Sager First Pitch insert card from the Topps Update series. \u00a0Craig has been battling cancer and it arrived today signed beautifully. \u00a0I wish him well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=1439\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Big Unit and Wood&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseballs","category-private-signing","category-sports-illustrated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}