{"id":2520,"date":"2016-04-20T07:53:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T12:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2016-04-14T13:54:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T18:54:33","slug":"vintage-photo-wednesday-1-babe-ruth-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/vintage-photo-wednesday-1-babe-ruth-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Photo Wednesday #1: Babe Ruth, 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/category\/vintage-photo-wednesday\/\">Vintage Photo Wednesday<\/a> I bring you the coolest sports photos from the first half of the 20th century and earlier I can find. Exceptions will be granted for photos up through the 1970s from time to time.\u00a0Clicking on the image below will take you to a larger version in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/grayflannelphotos\/albums\/72157667080399156\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr album<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For the first edition of this series I&#8217;m bringing you a great and rather intense portrait of the great Babe Ruth from his time with the Boston Red Sox. This images dates from 1916, when Ruth was still primarily a pitcher. In fact, 1916 was his career year on the mound &#8212; he led the American League in ERA and shutouts, and won 23 of his 40 starts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/grayflannelphotos\/26404042296\/in\/album-72157667080399156\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2521 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/babe-ruth-1916-boston-red-sox.jpg\" alt=\"Babe Ruth, 1916, with the Boston Red Sox\" width=\"800\" height=\"1047\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/babe-ruth-1916-boston-red-sox.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/babe-ruth-1916-boston-red-sox-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/babe-ruth-1916-boston-red-sox-768x1005.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/babe-ruth-1916-boston-red-sox-782x1024.jpg 782w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first edition of this series I&#8217;m bringing you a great and rather intense portrait of the great Babe Ruth from his time with the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270,322],"tags":[17,323,296,46,277,11],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-images","category-vintage-photo-wednesday","tag-1910s","tag-babe-ruth","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-mlb","tag-photos","tag-series","wpcat-270-id","wpcat-322-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","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=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}