{"id":126062,"date":"2017-07-31T14:35:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T19:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=126062"},"modified":"2017-08-01T08:16:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:16:07","slug":"cubs-give-steve-bartman-2016-world-series-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=126062","title":{"rendered":"Cubs give Steve Bartman 2016 World Series Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BartmanSteve.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-126101\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BartmanSteve-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BartmanSteve-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BartmanSteve-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BartmanSteve-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BartmanSteve.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Steve <span style=\"color: red;\">Bartman<\/span> is getting a World Series championship ring from the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs announced Monday they were giving a ring to the fan remembered for deflecting a foul ball that appeared destined to land in left fielder Moises Alou&#8217;s glove with Chicago five outs from the World Series in 2003.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red;\">Bartman<\/span> was harassed after the incident and has avoided the spotlight since. Chicago beat Cleveland last fall for its first championship since 1908.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs say they &#8220;hope this provides closure on an unfortunate chapter&#8221; and <span style=\"color: red;\">Bartman<\/span> &#8220;continues to be fully embraced by this organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red;\">Bartman<\/span> says he is &#8220;deeply moved.&#8221; He adds he hopes &#8220;we all can learn from my experience to view sports as entertainment and prevent harsh scapegoating.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Steve Bartman is getting a World Series championship ring from the Chicago Cubs. The Cubs announced Monday they were giving a ring to the fan remembered for deflecting a foul ball that appeared destined to land in left fielder Moises Alou&#8217;s glove with Chicago five outs from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":126101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126103,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126062\/revisions\/126103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}