{"id":687,"date":"2007-04-14T17:01:43","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T17:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=687"},"modified":"2013-11-30T17:04:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T17:04:57","slug":"boom-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":"Boom Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Forgive my doubting your site\u2026but I would have sworn that\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/bomback-mark\">Mark Bomback\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>wore number 26 in his brief stint with the Mets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Not for nothing but Bomback in the 20s was a vague memory for me too (MBTN\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/list.htm\">all-time roster<\/a>\u00a0lists him as wearing\u00a0<strong>36).<\/strong>\u00a0I happened to check Jack Looney\u2019s \u201cNow Batting Number\u201d and sure enough, he lists Bomback having dressed in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/36\">36<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>as well as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/28\"><strong>28<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>\u2014 not\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/26\">26\u00a0<\/a>\u2014 during his season here.<\/p>\n<p>Both 28 and 26 were available, at least until September when\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/backman-wally\"><strong>Wally Backman<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/holman-scott\"><strong>Scott Holman<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0wore those jerseys, respectively. Bomback doesn\u2019t appear in 28 or 26 on any scorecards in my inventory, but I hope you can check yours just to be sure (those dated prior to September would be most useful).<\/p>\n<p>Let us know what you find! You can comment below, or send an email to mbtn \/at\/ mbtn dot net, or to our new addy\u00a0<strong>mbtn01 \/at\/ gmail \/ dot\/ com.\u00a0<\/strong>Feel free to attach an image of your scorecard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer writes: Forgive my doubting your site\u2026but I would have sworn that\u00a0Mark Bomback\u00a0wore number 26 in his brief stint with the Mets. Not for nothing but Bomback in the 20s was a vague memory for me too (MBTN\u2019s\u00a0all-time roster\u00a0lists him as wearing\u00a036).\u00a0I happened to check Jack Looney\u2019s \u201cNow Batting Number\u201d and sure enough, he lists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=687\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Boom Boom&#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":[309],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mark-bomback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","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=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}