{"id":227,"date":"2020-12-31T16:09:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T22:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crestwoodpublishing.com\/?page_id=227"},"modified":"2020-12-31T16:16:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T22:16:28","slug":"red-faber-a-biography-of-the-hall-of-fame-spitball-pitcher","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crestwoodpublishing.com\/?page_id=227","title":{"rendered":"Red Faber: A Biography of the Hall of Fame Spitball Pitcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57\" src=\"https:\/\/crestwoodpublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/faber-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mcfarlandbooks.com\/product\/red-faber\/\">McFarland &amp; Company<\/a>, Inc., Publishers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jefferson, North Carolina 28640<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ISBN: 978-0-7864-2721-5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the first full biography of Hall of Famer Urban \u201cRed\u201d Faber, who won a record three World Series games in 1917\u2014 until 2005, the last time the Chicago White Sox won it all.<\/p>\n<p>The winningest spitball pitcher in the American League and one of the oldest players ever to wear a major league uniform, Faber regularly challenged the game\u2019s top hitters.<\/p>\n<p>He experienced the heights of championship baseball until the Black Sox scandal decimated Charles Comiskey\u2019s team and relegated Faber to stardom on second-division White Sox clubs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McFarland &amp; Company, Inc., Publishers Jefferson, North Carolina 28640 ISBN: 978-0-7864-2721-5 This is the first full biography of Hall of Famer Urban \u201cRed\u201d Faber, who won a record three World Series games in 1917\u2014 until 2005, the last time the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crestwoodpublishing.com\/?page_id=227\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-227","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crestwoodpublishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crestwoodpublishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crestwoodpublishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crestwoodpublishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crestwoodpublishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crestwoodpublishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/crestwoodpublishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crestwoodpublishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}