{"id":16488,"date":"2020-09-03T09:14:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T15:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16488"},"modified":"2020-09-02T19:29:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T01:29:41","slug":"rip-tom-terrific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/rip-tom-terrific\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Tom Terrific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/46-tom-seaver\/seaver\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11595\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11595\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/seaver.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/seaver.jpg 423w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/seaver-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a>Former White Sox pitcher and Hall of Famer Tom Seaver passed away Monday at the age of 75.\u00a0 Seaver won 311 games, had a 2.86 earned-run average and struck out 3,640 batters over a 20-year career that began in 1967.\u00a0 The 12-time All-Star led the National League in wins three times, ERA three times and strikeouts five times.\u00a0 He was\u00a0elected to the Hall of Fame in 1992, earning 98.8 percent of the vote, the highest voting percentage ever received at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Seaver joined the White Sox at the end of his career, acquired in the free agent compensation draft in 1984.\u00a0 He quickly made his mark on the south side, earning two wins in the same day by pitching the final inning of a suspended, 25 inning contest from the day before and then starting the regularly scheduled game against the Brewers.\u00a0 On August 4, 1985, Seaver threw a complete game to earn his 300th career victory against the Yankees in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Seaver is survived by\u00a0his wife Nancy and daughters Sarah and Anne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former White Sox pitcher and Hall of Famer Tom Seaver passed away Monday at the age of 75.\u00a0 Seaver won 311 games, had a 2.86 earned-run average and struck out 3,640 batters over a 20-year career that began in 1967.\u00a0 The 12-time All-Star led the National League in wins three times, ERA three times and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[5041,121,44,4763,49,51],"class_list":["post-16488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-all-star-game","tag-brewers","tag-hof","tag-tom-seaver","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16488","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16489,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16488\/revisions\/16489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}