{"id":3049,"date":"2023-03-28T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2023-04-01T12:22:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T17:22:03","slug":"the-clown-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3049","title":{"rendered":"The Clown Prince!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been fortunate enough to add the San Diego Chicken&#8217;s autograph to my collection on multiple occasions.  One of the first mascots\/entertainers in baseball was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Patkin\">Max Patkin<\/a> who was known as The Clown Prince of Baseball.  If you have watched Bull Durham or any number of baseball films from the 1950&#8217;s to 1980&#8217;s, you have probably seen a clip of Max performing.  Today I added a baseball signed by Max along with &#8220;Clown Prince of Baseball&#8221;.  I connected with  Evan Miller via Facebook when he was selling some of his father&#8217;s inventory.  His father ran Miller Boys memorabilia before he passed away and had Max in for multiple signing events.  I am excited to add this baseball to my collection!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been fortunate enough to add the San Diego Chicken&#8217;s autograph to my collection on multiple occasions. One of the first mascots\/entertainers in baseball was Max Patkin who was known as The Clown Prince of Baseball. If you have watched Bull Durham or any number of baseball films from the 1950&#8217;s to 1980&#8217;s, you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3049\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Clown Prince!&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseballs","category-bought"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049","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=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3050,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions\/3050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}