{"id":16288,"date":"2011-08-10T21:08:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T02:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/foundbookmarks\/?p=5"},"modified":"2017-02-27T17:57:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T23:57:21","slug":"kansas-city-royals-ticket-stub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/10\/kansas-city-royals-ticket-stub\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals Ticket Stub"},"content":{"rendered":"

About of the third of the way into a Gold Eagle book, Point Blank<\/em><\/a> (SOBs #17), I found a ticket stub for a Kansas City Royals game:<\/p>\n

\n\"Kansas<\/p>\n

Given that the book itself bears the stamp of a Kansas City used bookstore within it, I can assume that the ticket stub came from a Kansas City fan and not an Orioles fan.<\/p>\n

On May 10, 2003, the Royals were in first place in the American League Central, not that I would have known then. I lived in the St. Louis area, and if you’re in the St. Louis area and think about Kansas City+baseball, you think one of two things, depending upon where you were in 1985. You think They have baseball in Kansas City?<\/em> or you think Effin Don Denkinger!<\/a><\/em> Lest you wonder where I stand, let me tell you I alone in Busch Stadium (II) booed Don Denkinger when he called a game in 2000.<\/p>\n

The Royals beat the Orioles, 8-4, that night<\/a>. The manager was Tony Pe\u00f1a<\/a>, a former Cardinal catcher. The center fielder that night was Carlos Beltran, a player who would worry Cardinals fans in the coming years when he played for the Astros and Mets. You see, if you’re a Cardinals fan, it becomes all about the Cardinals.<\/p>\n

Section 408 lies on the third base side; I assume row U is the top of the nosebleeds such as they are. Note the price of the ticket, even in 2003: $2.50. Tickets to Milwaukee County Stadium were higher than that in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

The ticket lie closed in that book for over eight years before I bought that book (in June) and read it (in August).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About of the third of the way into a Gold Eagle book, Point Blank (SOBs #17), I found a ticket stub for a Kansas City Royals game: Given that the book itself bears the stamp of a Kansas City used bookstore within it, I can assume that the ticket stub came from a Kansas City […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-bookmarks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16291,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16288\/revisions\/16291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}