Some of you may remember Chris Bermann on ESPN giving nicknames to athletes. His Bert “Be Home” Blyleven was one of my favorites.
While organizing a box of items, I came across a couple old wirephotos I had bought somewhere along the line to get signed. I found two Tony Oliva and a Bert Blyleven wirephoto. I sent the two Oliva ones off to an upcoming signing and sent the Blyleven to Bert along with his requested donation. I received it back today signed along with a funny note. The photo shows Bert in mid-delivery with his knee above his elbow. He included a note that said “If I tried that high leg delivery now I would fall over!” Pretty funny stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some of you may remember Chris Bermann on ESPN giving nicknames to athletes. His Bert “Be Home” Blyleven was one of my favorites.While organizing a box of items, I came across a couple old wirephotos I had bought somewhere along the line to get signed. I found two Tony Oliva and a Bert Blyleven wirephoto. … Continue reading “Bert “Be Home” Blyleven”<\/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":[13,18,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hof","category-photos","category-ttm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731","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=3731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3732,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions\/3732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}