{"id":196142,"date":"2020-04-07T06:55:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T11:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=196142"},"modified":"2020-04-07T09:18:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T14:18:58","slug":"beloved-detroit-tigers-star-al-kaline-dies-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=196142","title":{"rendered":"Beloved Detroit Tigers star Al Kaline dies at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-196143\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/KalineAl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/KalineAl.jpg 140w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/KalineAl-137x175.jpg 137w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/>DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Al Kaline, who spent his entire 22-season Hall of Fame career with the Detroit Tigers and was known affectionately as \u201cMr. Tiger,\u201d has died. He was 85.<\/p>\n<p>John Morad, a friend of Kaline&#8217;s, confirmed to The Associated Press that he died Monday at his home in Michigan. Morad, who spoke first to the Detroit Free Press, said he&#8217;d been in contact with Kaline&#8217;s son.<\/p>\n<p>Kaline was the youngest player to win the American League batting title in 1955 at age 20 with a .340 batting average. The right fielder was a 15-time All-Star, won 10 Gold Gloves and was elected into the Hall of Fame in 1980 in his first year of eligibility.<\/p>\n<p>The beloved No. 6 later sat behind a microphone as a Tigers broadcaster from 1976 to 2001 and was also a special assistant to the general manager.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Al Kaline, who spent his entire 22-season Hall of Fame career with the Detroit Tigers and was known affectionately as \u201cMr. Tiger,\u201d has died. He was 85. John Morad, a friend of Kaline&#8217;s, confirmed to The Associated Press that he died Monday at his home in Michigan. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":196158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196142","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\/196142","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=196142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196144,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196142\/revisions\/196144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/196158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}