{"id":963083,"date":"2020-05-15T11:28:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=963083"},"modified":"2020-05-15T11:28:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:28:22","slug":"bob-watson-all-star-slugger-and-executive-dies-at-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=963083","title":{"rendered":"Bob Watson, All-Star slugger and executive, dies at 74"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/former-mlb-all-star-gm-and-executive-bob-watson-dead-at-74\/19099136\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/baseball\/mlb\/2020\/05\/15\/19099137\/5ebe256ed923a-media_2fec9d3b5e1d4fcc9cb7fa924a535ec0-DMID1-5mu5hzybf-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Obit_Bob_Watson_Baseball_27216\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Bob Watson, an All-Star slugger who became the first black general manager to win a World Series with the New York Yankees in 1996, has died. He was 74. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/former-mlb-all-star-gm-and-executive-bob-watson-dead-at-74\/19099136\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/former-mlb-all-star-gm-and-executive-bob-watson-dead-at-74\/19099136\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Bob Watson, All-Star slugger and executive, dies at 74\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Watson, an All-Star slugger who became the first black general manager to win a World Series with the New York Yankees in 1996, has died&#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-963083","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\/963083","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=963083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=963083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=963083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=963083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}