{"id":3005,"date":"2022-12-30T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3005"},"modified":"2023-01-12T10:00:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T16:00:03","slug":"a-retired-kitty-kaat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3005","title":{"rendered":"A Retired Kitty Kaat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was at the Twins game in 2022 when they retired #36 for Jim Kaat.  The team was able to get special baseballs for that game and I was fortunate to purchase a game used one, as well as a couple unused ones, for my collection.  Tom O (orr23mj on SCN) offered up a couple Christmas deals and one of them was one of those baseballs already signed and inscribed with &#8220;#36 Retired 7\/16\/22&#8221; and I bought it.  It was cheaper than if I got one of my own signed with postage and the autograph fee, etc.  I am waiting to get the game used one signed exactly the same way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at the Twins game in 2022 when they retired #36 for Jim Kaat. The team was able to get special baseballs for that game and I was fortunate to purchase a game used one, as well as a couple unused ones, for my collection. Tom O (orr23mj on SCN) offered up a couple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3005\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Retired Kitty Kaat&#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":[3,4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseballs","category-bought","category-hof"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005","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=3005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3006,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions\/3006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}