{"id":3910,"date":"2026-07-07T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3910"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:08:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T22:08:59","slug":"from-iowa-with-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3910","title":{"rendered":"From Iowa with Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I connected with Mike E a few years ago.  Mike lives in Iowa and hooks me up with St Paul Saints players when they are in town as well as Cedar Rapids Twins minor league players.  Today&#8217;s package arrived with three baseballs and a card.<br>The items included:<br>Charlie Barnes- 2022 Topps #641<br>Rainiel Rodriguez- OMLB<br>Eduardo Tait- OMLB<br>Dasan Hill- OMLB<br>And, as luck would have it, I just received a message that he got four things signed for me from the St Paul Saints!  Can&#8217;t wait to receive those!  Thanks Mike!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I connected with Mike E a few years ago. Mike lives in Iowa and hooks me up with St Paul Saints players when they are in town as well as Cedar Rapids Twins minor league players. Today&#8217;s package arrived with three baseballs and a card.The items included:Charlie Barnes- 2022 Topps #641Rainiel Rodriguez- OMLBEduardo Tait- OMLBDasan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3910\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From Iowa with Love&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,4,9,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseballs","category-bought","category-consignment","category-topps-twins-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910","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=3910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3911,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions\/3911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}