{"id":705422,"date":"2019-01-22T12:13:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T17:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=705422"},"modified":"2019-01-22T12:13:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T17:13:37","slug":"gold-the-best-and-the-worst-of-the-baseball-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=705422","title":{"rendered":"Gold: The best and the worst of the Baseball Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/gold-the-best-and-the-worst-of-the-baseball-hall-of-fame\/18140860\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/baseball\/mlb\/2019\/01\/21\/18139418\/media_c0d76f11af384b3eb1ffe7628a1b5606-DMID1-5hjxevry9-80x59.jpg\" alt=\"Hall_of_Fame_Ballot_Baseball_91965\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Mariano Rivera should be the first unanimous player elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.  But, since no one ever has, who will be the dope who stands up for Babe Ruth?  On the other end of the spectrum is Harold Baines, who through his election by the New Era Committee has opened the door for a lot of borderline &#8212; or worse &#8212; candidates. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/gold-the-best-and-the-worst-of-the-baseball-hall-of-fame\/18140860\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/gold-the-best-and-the-worst-of-the-baseball-hall-of-fame\/18140860\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Gold: The best and the worst of the Baseball Hall of Fame\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mariano Rivera should be the first unanimous player elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. But, since no one ever has, who will be the&#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-705422","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\/705422","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=705422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}