{"id":1673,"date":"2011-11-30T09:47:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T14:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2011-11-27T19:06:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T00:06:27","slug":"1987-new-york-mets-signed-team-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/11\/30\/1987-new-york-mets-signed-team-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"1987 New York Mets Signed Team Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-meRTQOo6RfQ\/TtLLxb9-XFI\/AAAAAAAAL7Q\/Pgz2uwDI5Jk\/s640\/2011-11-27%25252018.39.16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"1987 mets ball\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-meRTQOo6RfQ\/TtLLxb9-XFI\/AAAAAAAAL7Q\/Pgz2uwDI5Jk\/s640\/2011-11-27%25252018.39.16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures of a baseball I came into possession of. \u00a0When you find a signed baseball from the 1980s, you pretty much always expect it to be the &#8217;86 World Series team, especially when the first two names that jump out at you are Rafael Santana and Wally Backman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-IiKjHsOxQjE\/TtLLvpQandI\/AAAAAAAAL7I\/K01VujqaUEI\/s640\/2011-11-27%25252018.43.59.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"1987 mets ball\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-IiKjHsOxQjE\/TtLLvpQandI\/AAAAAAAAL7I\/K01VujqaUEI\/s640\/2011-11-27%25252018.43.59.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But then I saw\u00a0Kevin McReynolds who didn&#8217;t arrive until 1987. \u00a0Santana departed after the 1987 season, so that was the only year they played together and therefore the only year the ball can be from. \u00a0So there it is, a New York Mets team signed baseball from 1987.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-z4EN6ERP0dA\/TtLLuH08SwI\/AAAAAAAAL7A\/NMBQVAdX_So\/s640\/2011-11-27%25252018.44.55.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"1987 mets baseball\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-z4EN6ERP0dA\/TtLLuH08SwI\/AAAAAAAAL7A\/NMBQVAdX_So\/s640\/2011-11-27%25252018.44.55.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And yes, this baseball was apparently purchased at Sea World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some pictures of a baseball I came into possession of. \u00a0When you find a signed baseball from the 1980s, you pretty much always expect it to be the &#8217;86 World Series team, especially when the first two names that jump out at you are Rafael Santana and Wally Backman. But then I saw\u00a0Kevin &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/11\/30\/1987-new-york-mets-signed-team-baseball\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;1987 New York Mets Signed Team Baseball&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,3],"tags":[2384,2385,2964,2348,1465,2388,14,2387,2386],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1675,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions\/1675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}