{"id":1005667,"date":"2020-06-29T14:06:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T18:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1005667"},"modified":"2020-06-29T14:06:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T18:06:13","slug":"a-long-overdue-tip-of-the-cap-to-baseballs-black-pioneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1005667","title":{"rendered":"A long-overdue &#8216;Tip of the Cap&#8217; to baseball&#8217;s Black pioneers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/a-long-overdue-tip-of-the-cap-to-baseballs-black-pioneers\/19166153\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/baseball\/mlb\/2020\/06\/29\/19166154\/5ef9caf5bef97-media_871f7337f5e5427191006a912b4c2df7-DMID1-5nc3z5ssy-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Tip_of_the_Cap_Baseball_51234\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Barack Obama tipped his cap. So did three other former U.S. presidents and a host of prominent civil rights leaders, entertainers and sports greats in a virtual salute to the 100-year anniversary of the founding of baseball&#8217;s Negro Leagues. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/a-long-overdue-tip-of-the-cap-to-baseballs-black-pioneers\/19166153\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/a-long-overdue-tip-of-the-cap-to-baseballs-black-pioneers\/19166153\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"A long-overdue &#039;Tip of the Cap&#039; to baseball&#039;s Black pioneers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama tipped his cap. So did three other former U.S. presidents and a host of prominent civil rights leaders, entertainers and sports greats in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1005667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1005667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1005667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1005667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}