{"id":2231,"date":"2012-08-13T15:55:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T20:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2012-08-13T15:55:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T20:55:50","slug":"johnny-pesky-dies-red-sox-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=2231","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Pesky Dies, Red Sox Icon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/APnational.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1136\" title=\"APnational\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/APnational-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>BOSTON (AP) &#8211; Johnny Pesky, who spent most of his 60-plus years in pro baseball with the Boston Red Sox and was beloved by the team&#8217;s fans, has died. He was 92.<br \/>\nSolimine, Landergan and Richardson funeral home says Pesky died Monday in Danvers, Mass.<\/p>\n<p>It did not have the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, Pesky told The Associated Press, &#8220;I&#8217;ve had a good life with the ballclub. I just try to help out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pesky, a lifetime .307 hitter, was a player, manager and broadcaster for the Red Sox and became an unofficial ambassador for the club.<\/p>\n<p>He was part of the celebration of Fenway Park&#8217;s 100th anniversary in April.<\/p>\n<p>His legacy is a permanent part of Fenway with the Pesky Pole &#8211; the right-field foul pole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON (AP) &#8211; Johnny Pesky, who spent most of his 60-plus years in pro baseball with the Boston Red Sox and was beloved by the team&#8217;s fans, has died. He was 92. Solimine, Landergan and Richardson funeral home says Pesky died Monday in Danvers, Mass. It did not have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","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=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2232,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions\/2232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}