{"id":3671,"date":"2025-06-24T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3671"},"modified":"2025-06-24T18:06:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T23:06:59","slug":"thats-the-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3671","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s The Ticket(s)!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I received my first package of tickets from Ben W last week or so.  Today the last package came&#8230; All the way from London!  In it were the following tickets:<br>Lyman Bostock Cycle 07.24.1976 (unsigned)<br>Rob Manfred ticket from 04.05.2015 @ Cubs with &#8220;1st Game as Commissioner&#8221;<br>Lou Piniella ticket from his managerial debut 04.08.1986 @ Yankees (unsigned)<br>A pair of Pat Gillick tickets from 04.07.1978 Blue Jays @ Tigers with &#8220;1st Game as GM&#8221; and &#8220;HOF 2011&#8221;<br>Emmitt Ashford, the first black umpire, ticket from his first game on 1966 Opening Day at the Washington Senators.  I hope to donate this ticket to the Negro League Museum soon.<br>Ben has a tremendous collection that he is selling pieces of.  I am fortunate enough to have been able to acquire a VERY small part of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received my first package of tickets from Ben W last week or so. Today the last package came&#8230; All the way from London! In it were the following tickets:Lyman Bostock Cycle 07.24.1976 (unsigned)Rob Manfred ticket from 04.05.2015 @ Cubs with &#8220;1st Game as Commissioner&#8221;Lou Piniella ticket from his managerial debut 04.08.1986 @ Yankees (unsigned)A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3671\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;That&#8217;s The Ticket(s)!&#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":[4,13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bought","category-hof","category-tickets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671","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=3671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3672,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions\/3672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}