{"id":309078,"date":"2026-10-18T03:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T03:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309078\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T03:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T03:50:10","slug":"life-of-shamokin-native-and-baseball-legend-featured-in-new-book-the-giant-killer-69news-at-sunrise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309078\/","title":{"rendered":"Life of Shamokin native and baseball legend featured in new book, &#8220;The Giant Killer&#8221; | 69News at Sunrise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Coal Mines of Pennsylvania to the big leagues of baseball-\u00a0 more than a century ago Shamokin native Harry Coveleskie became one of the most talked about players in America, after the pitcher beat the New York Giants 3 times in 5 days. Just the start of his remarkable story.<\/p>\n<p>In his new book, former Reading Eagle Editor Harry Dietz uncovers the life of baseball&#8217;s forgotten &#8220;The Giant Killer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From the Coal Mines of Pennsylvania to the big leagues of baseball-\u00a0 more than a century ago Shamokin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,28,3705],"class_list":["post-309078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-sunrise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}