{"id":19121,"date":"2010-11-04T20:42:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T00:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=19121"},"modified":"2010-11-04T20:42:35","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T00:42:35","slug":"a-look-back-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/a-look-back-4\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10nov\/backballth.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" \/><br \/>\nThe St. Johns Independents<!--more--><br \/>\nby Barry Bauer<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10nov\/backball.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\nThe St. Johns Independent ball team was rated as one of the best in their class in the state of Michigan. In 1937 they finished the year with a 13-3 record. That may have been helped by the fact that they played all but two of their games at the St. Johns City Park, their home field.<br \/>\nStanding from left to right: L. G. Myers, catcher; Oscar Stockwell, utility outfielder; George Myers, left field; Gordon Drew, right field; B. Newton and F. Sohn, pitchers; Elbert Wright, third base; Bob Hankey, first base; Paul Martis, second base and pitcher; and Ed Rademacher, utility outfielder.<br \/>\nKneeling left to right: Kenneth Stockwell, utility outfielder; U. Rininger, third base coach; M. Fillmore, team coach; &#8220;Sonny&#8221; Estes, bat boy; James Bray, manager; Gordon Waggoner, shortstop; and Kenneth Williams, center field. Missing is Howard Waggoner, second base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Johns Independents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}