{"id":4984,"date":"2013-10-14T22:24:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T02:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4984"},"modified":"2013-10-17T23:59:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T03:59:31","slug":"mlb-umpire-wally-bell-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/10\/14\/mlb-umpire-wally-bell-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB umpire Wally Bell passes away from heart attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4985\" alt=\"wallybell\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/wallybell.jpg\" width=\"709\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/wallybell.jpg 709w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/wallybell-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Major League Baseball umpire Wally Bell has passed away after suffering a heart attack on Monday. He was 48.<\/p>\n<p>Bell recently worked in the National League Division Series between the\u00a0St. Louis Cardinals\u00a0and\u00a0Pittsburgh Pirates. He had spent 21 years as a big-league umpire beginning in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>As a big league umpire, Bell worked the 2006 World Series and seven Divison Series, three League Championship Series and three All-Star Games.<\/p>\n<p>Bell leaves behind two children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Baseball umpire Wally Bell has passed away after suffering a heart attack on Monday. He was 48. Bell recently worked in the National League Division Series between the\u00a0St. Louis Cardinals\u00a0and\u00a0Pittsburgh Pirates. He had spent 21 years as a big-league umpire beginning in 1993. As a big league umpire, Bell worked the 2006 World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[501,498],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-wally-bell"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984","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=4984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4984"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}