{"id":725,"date":"2012-04-01T15:44:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T22:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=725"},"modified":"2022-12-27T17:41:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T01:41:44","slug":"the-babe-in-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"The Babe in San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_726\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Ruth1921.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-726\" data-attachment-id=\"726\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?attachment_id=726\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Ruth1921.jpg?fit=697%2C1024\" data-orig-size=\"697,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ruth1921\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Babe Ruth in 1921. From Library of Congress.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Ruth1921.jpg?fit=697%2C1024\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-726\" title=\"Ruth1921\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Ruth1921.jpg?resize=204%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Ruth1921.jpg?resize=204%2C300 204w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Ruth1921.jpg?w=697 697w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Babe Ruth in 1921. From Library of Congress.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>George Herman Ruth, world&#8217;s greatest baseball player, came into our midst on the noon train today slanting one eye at his traveling bag and the other at the overcast sky. &#8220;Low visibility,&#8221; quoth the Babe. &#8220;But if the raindrops will stay away for a short time I guess I can get the range and park a few baseballs on the far side of your famous stadium.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211;San Diego Tribune, October 29, 1924.<\/p>\n<p>The story of a barnstorming Babe Ruth when he hit homers in City Stadium: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Babe-Ruth1.pdf\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">Babe Ruth in San Diego<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fblikebutton_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 10px;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sandiegoyesterday.com%2F%3Fp%3D725&amp;layout=standard&amp;show-faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:26px\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Herman Ruth, world&#8217;s greatest baseball player, came into our midst on the noon train today slanting one eye at his traveling bag and the other at the overcast sky. &#8220;Low visibility,&#8221; quoth the Babe. &#8220;But if the raindrops will stay away for a short time I guess I can get the range and park [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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],"tags":[800,40,803,801,120,802,804,805],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-babe-ruth","tag-baseball","tag-bob-meusel","tag-city-stadium","tag-la-mesa","tag-lou-gehrig","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-stanley-gue"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pVcZn-bH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}