{"id":50196,"date":"2000-11-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-11-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/dominicans-win-baseball-laurels-2\/"},"modified":"2000-11-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-11-08T00:00:00","slug":"dominicans-win-baseball-laurels-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2000\/11\/08\/dominicans-win-baseball-laurels-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominicans win baseball laurels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For only the third time in Big League history, a Dominican has been chosen &quot;Rookie of the Year.&quot; Rafael Furcal, shortstop for the Atlanta Braves, beat out eight other nominees, gaining 144 of the 288 votes cast. The runner-up, the Cardinals&#8217; Rick Ankiel, got 87 votes. Furcal, 19 years old, comes from Navarrete, in the Cibao Region. For only the eighth time in Big League history, a Dominican has been named recipient of a &quot;Golden Glove&quot; award. National League shortstop, Neifi Perez, in his sixth season with the Colorado Rockies, took the award for his outstanding defensive work. The 25-year old lives in Villa Mella. (8 November 2000)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For only the third time in Big League history, a Dominican has been chosen &quot;Rookie of the Year.&quot; Rafael Furcal, shortstop for the Atlanta Braves, beat out eight other nominees, gaining 144 of the 288 votes cast. The runner-up, the Cardinals&#8217; Rick Ankiel, got 87 votes. Furcal, 19 years old, comes from Navarrete, in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2000\/11\/08\/dominicans-win-baseball-laurels-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50196"}],"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=50196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}