{"id":1693,"date":"2020-04-10T12:25:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T16:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2020-04-10T12:25:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T16:25:32","slug":"eddie-saba-professional-football-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/2020\/04\/eddie-saba-professional-football-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Saba: Professional Football Player"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Eddie-Saba-Professional-Player.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"528\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Eddie-Saba-Professional-Player.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Eddie-Saba-Professional-Player.jpg 528w, https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Eddie-Saba-Professional-Player-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is Edward G. Saba&#8217;s death notice.  In it is mention that he played professional football for Providence Steamrollers of the Eastern Football League but I believe it was the late 1930&#8217;s and early 1940&#8217;s.  The last reference I found to him playing was a blurry team rooster from 1945.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is Edward G. Saba&#8217;s death notice. In it is mention that he played professional football for Providence Steamrollers of the Eastern Football League but I believe it was the late 1930&#8217;s and early 1940&#8217;s. The last reference I found to him playing was a blurry team rooster from 1945.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,8,149],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-saba","tag-eddie","tag-football","tag-providence-steamrollers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","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=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1694,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}