{"id":32496,"date":"2024-03-08T11:55:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T17:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=32496"},"modified":"2024-03-08T11:55:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T17:55:39","slug":"we-at-mfbjn-know-the-rest-of-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/08\/we-at-mfbjn-know-the-rest-of-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"We at MfBJN Know The Rest of the Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pardon me for Paul-Harveying this, but Stuff Nobody Cares About posted a picture of <a href=\"https:\/\/stuffnobodycaresabout.com\/2024\/03\/03\/st-louis-cardinals-catchers-at-spring-training-1937\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">1937 St. Louis Cardinals catchers at spring training<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Including Mickey Owen:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of the three catchers Mickey Owen had the most successful career. In 1937 the 21-year-old rookie played in 80 games for the Cardinals. Owen would become the Cardinals starting catcher in 1938 playing with the team until 1940.<\/p>\n<p>Mickey Owen would eventually play five seasons with the Brooklyn Dodgers making the All-Star team four times. Owen played in the major leagues until 1954 and had a career .255 batting average. Owen died at age 89 in 2005.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As we here at MfBJN <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?s=Mickey+Owen\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">have mentioned<\/a>, Owens moved to Greene County, Missouri, after his playing days.  He opened <a href=\"https:\/\/mickeyowenbaseball.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">a baseball school<\/a> a little west of here that we passed taking my boy to a basketball game out in Avila (it&#8217;s still open), and he later ran for Greene County sheriff and served several terms.  I know all this because I bought one of his re-election giveaways for a dime at a church garage sale a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/mickeyowen.jpg\" width=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just a little notepad.  No telling what it&#8217;s worth, but given that he played almost a century ago, probably as much as a modern giveaway notepad.  So less than the dime I paid for it likely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pardon me for Paul-Harveying this, but Stuff Nobody Cares About posted a picture of 1937 St. Louis Cardinals catchers at spring training. Including Mickey Owen: Of the three catchers Mickey Owen had the most successful career. In 1937 the 21-year-old rookie played in 80 games for the Cardinals. Owen would become the Cardinals starting catcher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32496","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\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32498,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32496\/revisions\/32498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}