{"id":141716,"date":"2018-03-28T17:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T22:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=141716"},"modified":"2018-03-29T13:42:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T18:42:44","slug":"slugger-rusty-staub-passes-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=141716","title":{"rendered":"Slugger, Rusty Staub passes, 73"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-141717\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/stuabrusty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/stuabrusty.jpg 277w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/stuabrusty-266x175.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The Mets say former slugger Rusty Staub has died at 73.<\/p>\n<p>The team says that Staub died Thursday after an illness in a hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida, hours before the start of the baseball season. A team spokesman says the Mets learned of the death from friends of Staub who were with him at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Staub was a six-time All-Star and the only player in major league history to have at least 500 hits with four different teams. The orange-haired outfielder became a huge hit with fans in the U.S. and Canada during a career spanning 23 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Staub played from 1963 to 1985 and finished 284 hits shy of 3,000. Affectionately dubbed &#8220;Le Grand Orange&#8221; in Montreal, he broke into the majors as a teenager with Houston, lasted into his 40s with the Mets and spent decades doing charity work in the New York area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The Mets say former slugger Rusty Staub has died at 73. The team says that Staub died Thursday after an illness in a hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida, hours before the start of the baseball season. A team spokesman says the Mets learned of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141716","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\/141716","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=141716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141737,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141716\/revisions\/141737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/141718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}