{"id":1013219,"date":"2024-02-01T23:16:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T23:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=1013219"},"modified":"2024-02-11T23:48:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T23:48:11","slug":"mlb-baseball-teams-to-replace-vandalized-jackie-robinson-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/mlb\/mlb-baseball-teams-to-replace-vandalized-jackie-robinson-statue","title":{"rendered":"MLB, baseball teams to replace vandalized Jackie Robinson statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MLB and its 30 clubs will replace the vandalized Jackie Robinson statue that was burglarized and destroyed on Jan. 25 in Wichita, Kansas, the league announced&#160;Thursday, the first day of Black History Month.Bob Lutz, the founder of the nonprofit League 42, which put up the statue in 2021, also posted about the MLB&#8217;s initiative on social media, calling it &#8220;amazing.&#8221; The nonprofit, which was founded in 2013 and named after Robinson&#8217;s jersey number, is a baseball league that exposes underserved youth to the sport.&#8221;The Commissioner&#8217;s Office and the 30 Clubs have committed funding towards the costs of replacing our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MLB and its 30 clubs will replace the vandalized Jackie Robinson statue that was burglarized and destroyed on Jan. 25 in Wichita, Kansas, the league announced&#160;Thursday, the first day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}