{"id":2190,"date":"2012-01-04T09:18:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T14:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2012-01-04T09:18:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T14:18:46","slug":"kennett-hall-of-fame-old-timers-dinner-includes-author-signing-of-ashburn-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=2190","title":{"rendered":"Kennett Hall of Fame Old Timers dinner includes author signing of Ashburn book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?attachment_id=2191\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2191\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2191\" style=\"border: 2px solid blue; margin: 4px;\" title=\"AshburnBook\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/AshburnBook-220x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/AshburnBook-220x300.png 220w, https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/AshburnBook.png 367w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 The 32nd annual Old Timers Hall of Fame dinner will include an author\u2019s signing of the book Richie Ashburn \u2026 Why the Hall Not? The Amazing Journey to Cooperstown.<\/p>\n<p>Former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Tommy Greene will be featured at the Saturday, January 14 event at the Kennett Fire Company\u2019s Red Clay Room. Tickets for the event can be obtained at Burton\u2019s Barber Shop in Kennett Square. Author Bruce E. Mowday will be on hand to sign copies of the Ashburn book. Ashburn once was a guest speaker at the event. The book costs $20 and a portion of the sales will be donated to the Old Timers organization.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><!--more--><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Richie Ashburn was named last month by Philadelphia Magazine as the most beloved athlete in Philadelphia\u2019s history. Barricade Books ordered a third printing of the Ashburn book this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew this was a great true story about a beloved star baseball player,\u201d said Barricade Books Publisher Carole Stuart. \u201cThis is a wonderful true story about a star athlete who takes time to talk to a young fan and sign an autograph and later the fan mounts a grassroots campaign to help the star athlete get into the Hall of Fame. You don\u2019t find many uplifting stories about athletes these days. This book tells such a story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Old Timers\u2019 event honors local athletes.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Mowday\u2019s books, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mowday.com\">www.mowday.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 The 32nd annual Old Timers Hall of Fame dinner will include an author\u2019s signing of the book Richie Ashburn \u2026 Why the Hall Not? The Amazing Journey to Cooperstown. Former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Tommy Greene will be featured at the Saturday, January 14 event at the Kennett Fire Company\u2019s Red Clay Room. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[243,361],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-ashburn","tag-kennett-square-old-timers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}