{"id":100785,"date":"2017-06-27T10:42:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T14:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=100785"},"modified":"2017-06-27T10:42:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T14:42:49","slug":"vladimir-guerrero-now-a-member-of-the-canadian-baseball-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/06\/27\/vladimir-guerrero-now-a-member-of-the-canadian-baseball-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Guerrero now a member of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_100795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100795\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100795\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Vladimir-Guerrero-300x279.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vladimir Guerrero \/ Notinhalloffame.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Former Montreal Expos slugger Vladimir Guerrero was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday, 24 June 2017. <\/span>Having last played in 2011, Guerrero was eligible for election to the Hall for the first time this year.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>A nine-time all-star, he has a .318 career batting average. He was voted the American League\u2019s most valuable player in 2004. Guerrero also played single seasons for the Texas Rangers and Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s2\">The <\/span>Class of 2017 also included Major League superstar Roy Halladay of the Toronto Blue Jays alongside long-time Baseball Canada president\u00a0Ray Carter and legendary umpire\u00a0Doug Hudlin. The 2015 gold-medal winning Pan Am Canadian Baseball team also made this year\u2019s induction list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">\u201cEach member of this year\u2019s class has had a tremendously positive impact on baseball in Canada,\u201d said Scott Crawford, the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame\u2019s director of operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\">Read more:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/3553347\/class-of-2017-canadian-baseball-hall-of-fame-inductees-include-roy-halladay-vlad-guerrero\/\" target=\"_blank\">Global News<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.notinhalloffame.com\/baseball\/top-50-baseball-players-by-franchise\/6890-5-vladimir-guerrero\" target=\"_blank\">Not in Hall of Fame<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\">27 June 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Montreal Expos slugger Vladimir Guerrero was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday, 24 June 2017. Having last played in 2011, Guerrero was eligible for election to the Hall for the first time this year.\u00a0 A nine-time all-star, he has a .318 career batting average. He was voted the American League\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/06\/27\/vladimir-guerrero-now-a-member-of-the-canadian-baseball-hall-of-fame\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}