{"id":481,"date":"2005-02-26T20:39:37","date_gmt":"2005-02-26T20:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=481"},"modified":"2013-11-29T20:41:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T20:41:22","slug":"willie-and-the-boz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"Willie and the Boz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/boswell.jpg\" width=\"138\" height=\"194\" \/>Willie Randolph,<\/strong>\u00a0as quoted by Bill Madden in the Daily News:\u00a0<em>&#8220;I&#8217;m gonna wear No. 12. Why? You remember Ken Boswell? Second baseman on the &#8217;69 team? He was my favorite player growing up. No. 12. It&#8217;s a nice number.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>We remember\u00a0<strong>Ken Boswell<\/strong>\u00a0too, and even if his sideburns might not fly in Willie&#8217;s clubhouse, it speaks well of the new Met manager that he has a sense of his place in history. This is probably a natural result of the era we grew up, but 12 has always seemed more Boswellian to us than Kent-like or Alomarish. And as glorified ticket salesman\u00a0<strong>Darryl Strawberry<\/strong>\u00a0makes a grand reappearance at Shea this weekend, may it serve as a reminder of this team&#8217;s horribly miscast former manager, who wore\u00a0<strong>No. 18<\/strong>\u00a0but was no\u00a0<strong>George Theodore<\/strong>\u00a0either.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>We found Madden&#8217;s piece, by the way, from a link at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mets2005.myblogsite.com\/\">extraordinary new blog<\/a>\u00a0co-authored by veteran MBTN reader Greg &#8212; highly recommended for fans of good writing and historical Metdom.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willie Randolph,\u00a0as quoted by Bill Madden in the Daily News:\u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;m gonna wear No. 12. Why? You remember Ken Boswell? Second baseman on the &#8217;69 team? He was my favorite player growing up. No. 12. It&#8217;s a nice number.&#8221; We remember\u00a0Ken Boswell\u00a0too, and even if his sideburns might not fly in Willie&#8217;s clubhouse, it speaks well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=481\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Willie and the Boz&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[183,167],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ken-boswell","tag-willie-randolph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}