{"id":5239,"date":"2025-12-29T10:09:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T06:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5239"},"modified":"2025-12-28T23:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:21:23","slug":"koufax-tiger-and-lebron-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5239","title":{"rendered":"Koufax, Tiger, and LeBron&#8230; oh my!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, December 30, is a big day in the sports world. It&#8217;s the birthday of possibly the greatest golfer, basketball player, and lefthanded pitcher of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Never heard this one before? Tiger Woods, Sandy Koufax, and LeBron James all share a birthday?<\/p>\n<p>And tomorrow, December 30, 2025, is an especially memorable milestone for two of those gentlemen. Koufax turns 90, which means, since he famously retired at 30, he&#8217;s now been out of baseball for\u00a0<em>two-thirds<\/em> of his life.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger turns 50 tomorrow, which would have been major (pun intended) news if not for the various recent injuries that have derailed a potential senior tour career.<\/p>\n<p>Still, you never know.<\/p>\n<p>And LeBron turning 41? Well, he&#8217;s got pretty much every other NBA record&#8230; 10 more players to pass on this one.<\/p>\n<p>And you have like the coolest birthday ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, December 30, is a big day in the sports world. It&#8217;s the birthday of possibly the greatest golfer, basketball player, and lefthanded pitcher of all time. Never heard this one before? Tiger Woods, Sandy Koufax, and LeBron James all &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5239\">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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5240,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions\/5240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}