{"id":140616,"date":"2020-04-17T13:01:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T13:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=140616"},"modified":"2020-04-17T19:49:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T19:49:27","slug":"legendary-ball-player-damaso-garcia-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/04\/17\/legendary-ball-player-damaso-garcia-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary ball player Damaso Garcia passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Damaso-Garcia-Listin-Diario-e1587088396245.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-140612\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He was only 65. Damaso Garc\u00eda, best known for the years he played as a Blue Jays All-star infielder, died on 15 April 2020. He played 11 seasons in the Major Leagues, including seven seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays and was a two-time MLB All Star during his career with the Yankees, Braves and Expos from 1978-1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Dominican Republic, Garc\u00eda played for the Licey team and was a member of the national baseball team at the Central American and Caribbean Games in 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His son, Damasito Garc\u00eda, said his father battled a brain tumor. He was given eight months to live when receiving the diagnosis, and lasted 29 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/el-deporte\/2020\/04\/16\/613423\/damasito-vivio-29-anos-mas-que-lo-diagnosticado-por-los-medicos\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/opinion\/am\/damasito-garcia-in-memoriam-FD18286614\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 April 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was only 65. Damaso Garc\u00eda, best known for the years he played as a Blue Jays All-star infielder, died on 15 April 2020. He played 11 seasons in the Major Leagues, including seven seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays and was a two-time MLB All Star during his career with the Yankees, Braves and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/04\/17\/legendary-ball-player-damaso-garcia-passes-away\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140616"}],"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=140616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140677,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140616\/revisions\/140677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}