{"id":16019,"date":"2020-04-14T09:23:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T15:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16019"},"modified":"2020-04-14T09:23:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T15:23:03","slug":"the-rona-claims-another-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/the-rona-claims-another-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rona Claims Another Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jimfrey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16020\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jimfrey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jimfrey.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jimfrey-300x204.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jimfrey-768x524.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>Jim Frey, the former Cubs manager and general manager, passed away on Sunday after battling the corona virus.\u00a0 He was 88.\u00a0 Frey became manager of\u00a0 the Cubs in 1984, leading the team to their first ever NL East title and first post-season appearance since 1945.\u00a0 An injury-marred 1985 season, followed by a slow start in 1986, led to his firing just 2 months into the season.<\/p>\n<p>Frey spent the 1987 season working for WGN radio as a color commentator on Cubs broadcasts.\u00a0 In December of that year, he was hired back by the Cubs to replace Dallas Green as the team&#8217;s general manager.\u00a0 Frey hired his old friend Don Zimmer to manage the team and the duo led the team to its second divisional title in 1989. \u00a0After a disappointing 1990 season, Frey was active on the free agent market, acquiring George Bell, Danny Jackson, and Dave Smith.\u00a0 When Jackson and Smith flopped in 1991, Zimmer was fired in May, on orders from\u00a0Tribune Co.\u00a0CEO\u00a0Donald Grenesko, and, following the season, Frey was reassigned within the organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Frey, the former Cubs manager and general manager, passed away on Sunday after battling the corona virus.\u00a0 He was 88.\u00a0 Frey became manager of\u00a0 the Cubs in 1984, leading the team to their first ever NL East title and first post-season appearance since 1945.\u00a0 An injury-marred 1985 season, followed by a slow start in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[8844,120,8908,8909,1804,4800,2213,4798,2971,2914],"class_list":["post-16019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-corona-virus","tag-cubs","tag-danny-jackson","tag-dave-smith","tag-don-zimmer","tag-donald-grenesko","tag-george-bell","tag-jim-frey","tag-tribune-company","tag-wgn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16021,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16019\/revisions\/16021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}