{"id":8893,"date":"2020-08-12T17:51:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T22:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8893"},"modified":"2020-08-12T17:52:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T22:52:11","slug":"what-happened-to-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8893","title":{"rendered":"WHAT HAPPENED TO BASEBALL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ken Burns takes a break from recounting Hornsby&#8217;s statistical brilliance \u2014 the three seasons he batted over .400, the two MVP awards, the second-highest lifetime batting average, etc. \u2014 to tell us a story about an umpire&#8217;s wit. This is the charm of Burns&#8217;s 1994 documentary series\u00a0<i>Baseball<\/i>. The viewer is regaled for more than 18 hours with not only box scores and controversy but also the quips of those who populated the game. But a funny thing happens midway through the last two-hour episode, which covers the game from the \u201870s to the \u201890s: The wit disappears. It happened right as we stopped referring to teams as ball clubs and started calling them \u201corganizations\u201d and brands.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>From:\u00a0https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/what-happened-to-baseball-wit<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Burns takes a break from recounting Hornsby&#8217;s statistical brilliance \u2014 the three seasons he batted over .400, the two MVP awards, the second-highest lifetime batting average, etc. \u2014 to tell us a story about an umpire&#8217;s wit. This is the charm of Burns&#8217;s 1994 documentary series\u00a0Baseball. The viewer is regaled for more than 18 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8894,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893\/revisions\/8894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}