{"id":3847,"date":"2026-03-18T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3847"},"modified":"2026-03-19T17:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:13:08","slug":"the-lip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3847","title":{"rendered":"The Lip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I recently came across a post in a Facebook collecting group where Richard Stevens posted having some old baseballs he had recently acquired in a collection purchase.  One of the baseballs was Leo Durocher and was for sale.  I have wanted a Durocher ball for some time and this opportunity was too good to pass up.  I received it today.  It is signed real nice and bold in blue ink on the sweetspot.  the ball is evenly toned which is common in old baseballs.  This one is a Charles Feeney National League ball.  I am super excited to add this to my Hall of Famer collection!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently came across a post in a Facebook collecting group where Richard Stevens posted having some old baseballs he had recently acquired in a collection purchase. One of the baseballs was Leo Durocher and was for sale. I have wanted a Durocher ball for some time and this opportunity was too good to pass &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3847\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Lip&#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-3847","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\/3847","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=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3848,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions\/3848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}