{"id":720827,"date":"2019-02-20T01:43:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T06:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=720827"},"modified":"2019-02-20T01:43:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T06:43:17","slug":"former-dodgers-great-don-newcombe-dies-at-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=720827","title":{"rendered":"Former Dodgers great Don Newcombe dies at 92"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/former-dodgers-great-don-newcombe-has-died-at-92\/18203021\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/baseball\/mlb\/2019\/02\/19\/18203068\/5c6c6646c82e5-media_b67bc7518528402f9b49ebef9654c572-DMID1-5hve7cf6z-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Obit_Newcombe_Baseball_33082\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Don Newcombe, the hard-throwing Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher who was one of the first black players in the major leagues and who went on to win the Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable Player and Cy Young awards, has died. He was 92. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/former-dodgers-great-don-newcombe-has-died-at-92\/18203021\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/former-dodgers-great-don-newcombe-has-died-at-92\/18203021\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Former Dodgers great Don Newcombe dies at 92\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Newcombe, the hard-throwing Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher who was one of the first black players in the major leagues and who went on to win&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=720827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=720827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=720827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=720827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}