{"id":3073,"date":"2023-05-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2023-05-07T11:57:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T16:57:31","slug":"sweet-swingin-billy-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3073","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Swingin&#8217; Billy Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I recently received my February, 1968 Baseball Digest back from Rick Reichardt and was hoping to find a Billy Williams signing event soon.  Turns out I did not have to wait long!  Jim &amp; Steve&#8217;s Sportscards in Chicago announced Williams was going to be a guest of theirs at a signing event.  I sent in my magazine and received it back today!  They even sent me a picture of Billy signing my magazine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"599\" height=\"799\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/BillyWilliams_BaseballDigest_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/BillyWilliams_BaseballDigest_.jpg 599w, https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/BillyWilliams_BaseballDigest_-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 85vw, 599px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To say I am thrilled is an understatement! Now I need a Tony Oliva signing to complete it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received my February, 1968 Baseball Digest back from Rick Reichardt and was hoping to find a Billy Williams signing event soon. Turns out I did not have to wait long! Jim &amp; Steve&#8217;s Sportscards in Chicago announced Williams was going to be a guest of theirs at a signing event. I sent in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3073\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sweet Swingin&#8217; Billy Williams&#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":[13,17,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hof","category-non-si-magazine","category-private-signing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073","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=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3075,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}