{"id":3937,"date":"2026-07-27T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3937"},"modified":"2026-07-27T16:54:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:54:01","slug":"randy-a-bird-in-the-hand-is-worth-two-in-the-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3937","title":{"rendered":"Randy &#8220;A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the&#8221; Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Randy Bush was a guest speaker at a Twins season ticket holder event and I was surprised that I did not know anything about his 200 mile home run!  It was mentioned, and confirmed, that Randy hit a home run that travelled 200 miles.  I knew I had to get a story ball about that event!  Today I received the ball and Randy wrote how he hit a home run in Charleston, WV for the Toledo Mud Hens and it landed on a train coal car and it kept on moving until Pittsburgh, PA!  Fun story and a great baseball!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Bush was a guest speaker at a Twins season ticket holder event and I was surprised that I did not know anything about his 200 mile home run! It was mentioned, and confirmed, that Randy hit a home run that travelled 200 miles. I knew I had to get a story ball about that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3937\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Randy &#8220;A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the&#8221; Bush&#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":[3,25,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseballs","category-story-ball-collection","category-ttm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937","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=3937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3938,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions\/3938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}