{"id":1402,"date":"2013-07-06T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2013-07-06T10:04:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T14:04:12","slug":"walt-dropo-autograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/2013\/07\/walt-dropo-autograph\/","title":{"rendered":"Walt Dropo Autograph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phosy Saba knew a lot of professional players but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/ns\/obituary.aspx?n=walt-dropo&amp;pid=147194286\">Walt Dropo<\/a> (1\/30\/1923 &#8211; 12\/17\/2010) was different.\u00a0 A &#8220;local&#8221; guy who attended the University of Connecticut where he was a three-sport star at UConn in the 1940s and one of the greatest athletes in school history.\u00a0\u00a0 Walt autographed this photo for Phosy while playing for the Boston Red Sox where he won the 1950 American League Rookie of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/RedSox-Walt-Dropo_toPhosy_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1403\" alt=\"RedSox-Walt-Dropo_toPhosy_sm\" src=\"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/RedSox-Walt-Dropo_toPhosy_sm-238x300.jpg\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/RedSox-Walt-Dropo_toPhosy_sm-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/RedSox-Walt-Dropo_toPhosy_sm.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walt_Dropo\">Walt Dropo here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phosy Saba knew a lot of professional players but Walt Dropo (1\/30\/1923 &#8211; 12\/17\/2010) was different.\u00a0 A &#8220;local&#8221; guy who attended the University of Connecticut where he was a three-sport star at UConn in the 1940s and one of the greatest athletes in school history.\u00a0\u00a0 Walt autographed this photo for Phosy while playing for the &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/2013\/07\/walt-dropo-autograph\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[74,18,119,73],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phosy-saba","tag-baseball","tag-phosy","tag-red-sox","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}