{"id":6175,"date":"2010-04-08T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=6175"},"modified":"2010-03-22T12:07:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:07:25","slug":"baseball-diamond-in-the-rough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/baseball-diamond-in-the-rough\/","title":{"rendered":"(Baseball) Diamond in the Rough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51YHWD3AH5L._SL500_AA240_.jpg?resize=240%2C240\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/>An excellent little baseball movie that never got its due was <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0105109\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pastime<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Good luck finding it on any &#8220;best&#8221; lists.\u00a0 Released in 1991, it is the story of an aging minor league pitcher named Roy Dean Bream seemingly holding on just for the love of the game or nowhere else to go.\u00a0 Set in 1957, Bream is the only player halfway civil to a humble black rookie pitcher while the rest of the team addresses him as a pariah.<\/p>\n<p>Either this little gem never got released or didn&#8217;t have any marketing budget.\u00a0 Apparently some people other than myself enjoyed it&#8230;it won the audience award at Sundance and features cameos by Bob Feller, Duke Snider, Ernie Banks, Don Newcombe, Bill Mazeroski and Harmon Killebrew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent little baseball movie that never got its due was Pastime.\u00a0 Good luck finding it on any &#8220;best&#8221; lists.\u00a0 Released in 1991, it is the story of an aging minor league pitcher named Roy Dean Bream seemingly holding on just for the love of the game or nowhere else<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/baseball-diamond-in-the-rough\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[91,330,1116,779],"class_list":["post-6175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference","tag-baseball","tag-history","tag-minor-leagues","tag-movie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1BB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6175"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6205,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175\/revisions\/6205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}