{"id":46222,"date":"2025-07-29T11:43:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T18:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=46222"},"modified":"2025-07-30T06:47:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:47:21","slug":"r-i-p-ryne-sandberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=46222","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Ryne Sandberg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Got to see him play at Wrigley in 1990 with my late brother, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=23122\">Bobby<\/a>. Thinking of both of them today. It was our first of many ballpark trips that we would make together. Sandberg was beloved by the fans of Chicago, and all of baseball. Class Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rest in Peace Ryne Sandberg ??? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zoGkPsKsVB\">pic.twitter.com\/zoGkPsKsVB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Baseball\u2019s Greatest Moments (@BBGreatMoments) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBGreatMoments\/status\/1950006333958132214?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ESPN gives him proper:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ESPN&#39;s tribute to Ryne Sandberg <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uGhCMkGeoo\">pic.twitter.com\/uGhCMkGeoo<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CJ Fogler ? (@cjzero) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cjzero\/status\/1950020250558160926?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got to see him play at Wrigley in 1990 with my late brother, Bobby. Thinking of both of them today. It was our first of many ballpark trips that we would make together. Sandberg was beloved by the fans of Chicago, and all of baseball. Class Act. ESPN gives him proper:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1036,28],"tags":[1643],"class_list":{"0":"post-46222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-baseball","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-rynesandberg","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46230,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46222\/revisions\/46230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}