{"id":4094,"date":"2013-10-25T13:27:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T18:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2013-10-25T13:27:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T18:27:35","slug":"the-lansing-lugnuts-were-the-waterloo-diamonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/the-lansing-lugnuts-were-the-waterloo-diamonds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lansing Lugnuts were the Waterloo Diamonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wondered what had ever happened to the Waterloo Diamonds, after a cup with their logo had faded to near oblivion. From this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/smallbiz\/news\/coladvice\/book\/bk990604.htm\">excerpt from a 1999 book<\/a> about female entrepreneurs, I found that the Diamonds became the Lansing Lugnuts, one of the wackier names in minor league baseball. (The Diamonds had other names before that while in Waterloo.)<\/p>\n<p>The Diamonds\/Lugnuts are single-A baseball; Waterloo has a different team now, the Bucks, which are part of a &#8220;collegiate summer baseball league.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wondered what had ever happened to the Waterloo Diamonds, after a cup with their logo had faded to near oblivion. From this excerpt from a 1999 book about female entrepreneurs, I found that the Diamonds became the Lansing Lugnuts, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/the-lansing-lugnuts-were-the-waterloo-diamonds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4095,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions\/4095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}