{"id":3390,"date":"2010-07-24T11:13:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T11:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3390"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:30:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:30:46","slug":"ralph-houk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3390","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Houk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yankee player and manager. I remember him <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">because I&#39;m old<\/span> as manager in the early 60&#39;s &#8211; he took over after Casey Stengel. Yanks won two World Series (&#39;61 and &#39;62) while he was manager. He played for them in late 40&#39; until 1954, so he was a player on several World Series winning Yankee teams. <\/p>\n<p>Houk served in the army during WW II in the Battle of the Bulge &#8211; he was a major.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.yankees.mlb.com\/news\/press_releases\/press_release.jsp?ymd=20100722&amp;content_id=12513932&amp;vkey=pr_nyy&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;c_id=nyy\">Yankees recognize and honor the passing of Ralph Houk<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yankee player and manager. I remember him because I&#39;m old as manager in the early 60&#39;s &#8211; he took over after Casey Stengel. Yanks won two World Series (&#39;61 and &#39;62) while he was manager. He played for them in late 40&#39; until 1954, so he was a player on several World Series winning Yankee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8984,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390\/revisions\/8984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}