{"id":14478,"date":"2003-11-14T02:35:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-14T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/14\/the-ball-is-up-for-auction\/"},"modified":"2003-11-14T02:35:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-14T02:35:00","slug":"the-ball-is-up-for-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/14\/the-ball-is-up-for-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ball is up for auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The baseball that changed history for the Cubs (or kept history the same way it&rsquo;s been for 58 years) will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/US\/Midwest\/11\/13\/offbeat.foul.ball.reut\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">sold at auction<\/a> with a starting bid of $5000. The money won&rsquo;t be going to the Cubs&rsquo; least popular fan, but to a lawyer sitting near him, who ended up with the Ball. As a side note, Mark McGuire&rsquo;s 70th home run ball <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/US\/9901\/13\/mcgwire.01\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">sold for $3 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-106877732749799664?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The baseball that changed history for the Cubs (or kept history the same way it&rsquo;s been for 58 years) will be sold at auction with a starting bid of $5000. The money won&rsquo;t be going to the Cubs&rsquo; least popular fan, but to a lawyer sitting near him, who ended up with the Ball. As &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/14\/the-ball-is-up-for-auction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Ball is up for auction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}