{"id":156256,"date":"2018-10-24T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=156256"},"modified":"2018-10-24T10:09:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T15:09:15","slug":"sportscaster-hank-greenwald-passes-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=156256","title":{"rendered":"Sportscaster, Hank Greenwald passes, 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-156257\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GreenwaldHank-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GreenwaldHank-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GreenwaldHank-431x295.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GreenwaldHank-862x591.jpg 862w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GreenwaldHank-768x526.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GreenwaldHank-255x175.jpg 255w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/GreenwaldHank.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>San Francisco &#8212; Longtime San Francisco Giants broadcaster Hank Greenwald has died at 83.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants say he died Monday after battling heart and kidney complications.<\/p>\n<p>Greenwald spent 16 seasons as the team&#8217;s play-by-play broadcaster. He called Giants games on radio from 1979-86 before leaving for a two-year stint with the New York Yankees. He then returned to the Giants and called their games until he stepped down in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Giants President Larry Baer called Greenwald a &#8220;broadcasting legend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Greenwald also called games for University of San Francisco basketball, Syracuse football, Triple-A baseball in Hawaii and the Golden State Warriors. He worked part time for the Oakland Athletics in 2004-05 and served as the press box public address announcer at the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-156259\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/greenwaldhank2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/greenwaldhank2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/greenwaldhank2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/greenwaldhank2-175x175.jpg 175w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/greenwaldhank2.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>He was also a news anchor at WOLF Radio in Syracuse.<\/p>\n<p>Greenwald is a <strong>Syracuse University graduate<\/strong> whose broadcasting career began with <strong>SU football and the Syracuse Nats of the NBA.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco &#8212; Longtime San Francisco Giants broadcaster Hank Greenwald has died at 83. The Giants say he died Monday after battling heart and kidney complications. Greenwald spent 16 seasons as the team&#8217;s play-by-play broadcaster. He called Giants games on radio from 1979-86 before leaving for a two-year stint with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":156257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156256","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\/156256","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=156256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156260,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156256\/revisions\/156260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/156257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}