{"id":790,"date":"2009-06-15T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/?p=790"},"modified":"2009-06-15T06:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T11:52:00","slug":"bottom-of-the-ninth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"Bottom of the Ninth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-et-book15-2009jun15,0,6032889.story\">review<\/a> of Michael Shapiro&#8217;s new book on the aborted life of the Continental League, a would be addition to the majors, appears in today&#8217;s Los Angeles Times. (I sure picked the right day to run a baseball story in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/la-sp-lakers-magic15-2009jun15,0,3950569.story\">paper<\/a>.) &#8220;Bottom of the Ninth&#8221; is a book that&#8217;s absolutely worth your time, though not an easy one, and not without its flaws. Though we all have a tendency to stick our heads in the sand when it comes to the ugly shenanigans that are the business of baseball\u2014we watch baseball because it&#8217;s supposed to be entertainment\u2014unless we keep an eye on history&#8217;s fine print it&#8217;s impossible to hold accountable those who control the game. Those who are ignorant of the past, are condemned to repeat it. Or perhaps we&#8217;d be condemned anyway, but a little bit of knowledge doesn&#8217;t hurt, especially if it comes in an enjoyable package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My review of Michael Shapiro&#8217;s new book on the aborted life of the Continental League, a would be addition to the majors, appears in today&#8217;s Los Angeles Times. (I sure picked the right day to run a baseball story in the paper.) &#8220;Bottom of the Ninth&#8221; is a book that&#8217;s absolutely worth your time, though &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=790\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bottom of the Ninth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}