{"id":2896,"date":"2013-05-31T12:51:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T16:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=2896"},"modified":"2013-05-31T12:51:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T16:51:27","slug":"curtis-granderson-donates-5-million-to-build-baseball-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/05\/31\/curtis-granderson-donates-5-million-to-build-baseball-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtis Granderson donates $5 million to build baseball stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2897\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2897\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2897\" alt=\"curtisgranderson\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/curtisgranderson.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/curtisgranderson.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/curtisgranderson-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Curtis Granderson will pay $5 million of the $7 million it will cost to build a new baseball stadium at his former college alma mater. Granderson had his jersey retired at the University of Illinois at Chicago in February and pledged to help fund a new stadium for the school.<\/p>\n<p>Granderson is making $15 million this year in the final year of a $32 million contract he signed in 2008. He will hit the free agent market at the seasons end. Currently on the disabled list for a broken knuckle in his pinkie, Granderson has topped 40 home runs and 100 RBI in each of the last two seasons.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O8UyRm7dKXU\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The stadium will open in 2015 seat 1,200 and be called Curtis Granderson Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curtis Granderson will pay $5 million of the $7 million it will cost to build a new baseball stadium at his former college alma mater. Granderson had his jersey retired at the University of Illinois at Chicago in February and pledged to help fund a new stadium for the school. Granderson is making $15 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[353,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-2896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-curtis-granderson","8":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}