{"id":646872,"date":"2020-05-12T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T19:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=646872"},"modified":"2020-05-12T13:30:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T19:30:11","slug":"what-was-it-like-to-play-baseball-with-michael-jordan-former-barons-teammate-larry-thomas-is-here-with-the-inside-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/what-was-it-like-to-play-baseball-with-michael-jordan-former-barons-teammate-larry-thomas-is-here-with-the-inside-info\/","title":{"rendered":"What was it like to play baseball with Michael Jordan? Former Barons teammate Larry Thomas is here with the inside info!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we all watch &#8220;The Last Dance&#8221; on ESPN and go back in time to follow the career of Michael Jordan, there are some people who were around the Chicago Bulls superstar that don&#8217;t quite agree with the reality that is being portrayed on the docu-series. Larry Thomas, who was a teammate of Jordan&#8217;s while playing Minor League Baseball on the Birmingham Barons, had some comments that don&#8217;t quite line up with the sentiment that Jordan and ESPN have regarding his time in which he left basketball for a career in baseball. Listen below to hear Larry give his thoughts on what it was like having a basketball star come into his sport of baseball!<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-646872-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LarryThomas5-12-20.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LarryThomas5-12-20.mp3\">http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/LarryThomas5-12-20.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>As we all watch &#8220;The Last Dance&#8221; on ESPN and go back in time to follow the career of Michael Jordan, there are some people <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/what-was-it-like-to-play-baseball-with-michael-jordan-former-barons-teammate-larry-thomas-is-here-with-the-inside-info\/\" title=\"What was it like to play baseball with Michael Jordan? Former Barons teammate Larry Thomas is here with the inside info!\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,147,117,106],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-646872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-baseball","7":"category-featured-news","8":"category-news","9":"category-on-the-air"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646882,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646872\/revisions\/646882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}