{"id":20929,"date":"2021-03-16T08:45:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T12:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=20929"},"modified":"2021-03-16T05:50:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T09:50:14","slug":"rangers-name-spring-training-field-after-charley-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/03\/rangers-name-spring-training-field-after-charley-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers Name Spring Training Field After Charley Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kr-bBHuhZYo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Charley Pride was a part-owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, and now they are paying homage to the late singer by naming a baseball field after him.<\/p>\n<p>The team announced the decision on Sunday, March 14th and unveiled &#8220;Charley Pride Field&#8221; at the official Rangers spring training complex in Surprise, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Via a statement, the team said, \u201cIntroducing Charley Pride Field! You are greatly missed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1371159234101063685\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Charley was a pitcher in the Negro Leagues in the 1950s and 1960s prior to his career in music.<\/p>\n<p>TMZ reports he held a part-ownership stake in the Rangers after joining a group that purchased the team in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>He frequently attended Texas Rangers Spring Training at the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Charley died of Covid at the age of 86 in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charley Pride was a part-owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, and now they are paying homage to the late singer by naming a baseball field after him.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":20937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[759,2791,2496,2792,1758,1110,2790],"class_list":["post-20929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-arizona","tag-baseball","tag-charley-pride","tag-charley-pride-field","tag-covid-19","tag-mlb","tag-texas-rangers"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 19:17:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/03\/rangers-name-spring-training-field-after-charley-pride\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20930,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20929\/revisions\/20930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}