{"id":529,"date":"2019-07-19T17:01:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T22:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/?p=529"},"modified":"2025-10-08T12:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:16:47","slug":"ernest-young-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/ernest-young-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Ernest Young 87"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"309\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/young.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/young.jpg 309w, https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/young-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mendel:&nbsp; Baseball, All Catholic League 1986\/87, All State 1987,Athletic Award 1987<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lewis University, BA: Baseball Two Time Al American NCAA Division II, 1989, 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Team, 1990, 1<sup>st<\/sup> Team, All Conference Great Lakes Valley 1989-90, All Region Baseball Team Selected by American Baseball Coach\u2019s Association, NCAA Championship Team Division 2 1989<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professional Baseball:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Drafted by Oakland Athletics, 1990<br> <br> Minor League Career:<br> Modesto A\u2019s Batter of the Month May 1993<br> Southern League, Player of the Year, 1994<br> Minor League of the Month 1994<br> Southern League All Player Star Team 1994<br> Rocky Coyle Fans Favorite Award 1994<br> Delta.Com Long Distance Home Run Contest Winner 1994<br> 300 Home Runs During Minor League Career <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Major League Career:<br>  Oakland Athletics <br>  Detroit Tigers <br> Cleveland Indians <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>USA Olympic\nGold Medalist, Baseball 2001<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minor League\nCoach and Manager for Several Teams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mendel:&nbsp; Baseball, All Catholic League 1986\/87, All State 1987,Athletic Award 1987 Lewis University, BA: Baseball Two Time Al American NCAA Division II, 1989, 2nd Team, 1990, 1st Team, All Conference Great Lakes Valley 1989-90, All Region Baseball Team Selected by American Baseball Coach\u2019s Association, NCAA Championship Team Division 2 1989 Professional Baseball:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Drafted by Oakland Athletics, 1990 Minor League Career: &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/ernest-young-87\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hall-of-fame","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599,"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/2599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mendelchs.org\/hof\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}