{"id":26444,"date":"2025-10-22T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=26444"},"modified":"2025-10-26T02:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T02:17:03","slug":"perhaps-honus-wagner-said-it-best-an-early-star-of-the-negro-leagues-oscar-charleston-drew-comparisons-to-the-greatest-players-of-his-era-babe-ruth-ty-cobb-and-wagner-and-like-the-great-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=26444","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps Honus Wagner said it best? An early star of the Negro Leagues, Oscar Charleston drew comparisons to the greatest players of his era\u2014Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and Wagner. And like the great Wagner, whose cardboard legacy rivals his on-field heroics, Charleston\u2019s playing-day\u2026 pic."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Perhaps Honus Wagner said it best?<\/p>\n<p>An early star of the Negro Leagues, Oscar Charleston drew comparisons to the greatest players of his era\u2014Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and Wagner. And like the great Wagner, whose cardboard legacy rivals his on-field heroics, Charleston\u2019s playing-day\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1lOHxh4QrS\">pic.twitter.com\/1lOHxh4QrS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PSAcard (@PSAcard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PSAcard\/status\/1981133730673520983?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps Honus Wagner said it best? An early star of the Negro Leagues, Oscar Charleston drew comparisons to the greatest players of his era\u2014Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and Wagner. And like the great Wagner, whose cardboard legacy rivals his on-field heroics, Charleston\u2019s playing-day\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/1lOHxh4QrS \u2014 PSAcard (@PSAcard) October 22, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":26446,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[49,33],"class_list":{"0":"post-26444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-grading","8":"tag-psa","9":"tag-x"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26445,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26444\/revisions\/26445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}