{"id":2300,"date":"2016-02-21T10:39:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T15:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2016-02-21T10:39:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T15:39:50","slug":"minor-league-gems-oklahoma-city-89ers-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/minor-league-gems-oklahoma-city-89ers-1972\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor League Gems: Oklahoma City 89ers, 1972"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a four-year span with no professional baseball in the Oklahoma City area, the new Houston Colt .45s decided to purchase and then move the American Association&#8217;s Houston Buffaloes out of their home market and into Oklahoma City. The team became the Colt .45s\/Astros AAA affiliate and was renamed to the Oklahoma City 89ers.\u00a0This name made reference to the Land Run of 1889, which led to the founding of Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2301\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/oklahoma-city-89ers-program-1972.jpg\" alt=\"Oklahoma City 89ers, 1972 program\" width=\"663\" height=\"897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/oklahoma-city-89ers-program-1972.jpg 663w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/oklahoma-city-89ers-program-1972-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1972 was the final year of the 89ers&#8217; association with the Astros. Over the ensuing decade the team switched ownership to the Cleveland Indians and Philadelphia Phillies, before finding a new home with the Texas Rangers for almost 30 years. The Oklahoma City team is now owned by the Los Angeles Dodgers and carries the parent team&#8217;s nickname.<\/p>\n<h4>Incoming search terms:<\/h4><ul><li>89ers<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wonderful program from the one-time AAA affiliate of the Houston Astros, the Oklahoma City 89ers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[59,16,102,300,299,14],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-minor-league-gems","tag-1970s","tag-baseball","tag-houston-astros","tag-minor-league-baseball","tag-oklahoma-city-89ers","tag-programs","wpcat-71-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}