{"id":5648,"date":"2014-06-10T16:17:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T23:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5648"},"modified":"2014-06-16T16:23:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T23:23:33","slug":"bob-welch-reggie-jacksons-daddy-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/10\/bob-welch-reggie-jacksons-daddy-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Welch (Reggie Jackson&#8217;s Daddy) Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/11\/sports\/bob-welch-pitching-ace-and-rangy-prototype-for-todays-power-arms-is-dead-at-57.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The LA Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Bob Welch, Pitching Ace and Prototype for Today\u2019s Power Arms, Dies at 57<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/26fRnCj4SYQ\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"275\" data-total-count=\"275\">Bob Welch, a flame-throwing right-hander for the\u00a0<a class=\"meta-org\" style=\"color: #326891;\" title=\"Recent news and scores about the Los Angeles Dodgers.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/sports\/baseball\/majorleague\/losangelesdodgers\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a class=\"meta-org\" style=\"color: #326891;\" title=\"Recent news and scores about the Oakland Athletics.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/sports\/baseball\/majorleague\/oaklandathletics\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland A\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0who overcame alcoholism to win 211 games, including 27 in 1990, a single-season total no other pitcher has reached in the past 40 years, died on Monday in Seal Beach, Calif. He was 57.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"149\" data-total-count=\"424\">Welch played 17 seasons in the big leagues, from 1978 to 1994, was named to two All-Star teams, one in each league, and won the American League Cy Young Award in 1990. He was among the hardest throwers of his era, a rangy and athletic prototype of the so-called power arms who now flood the rotations and bullpens of major league teams, challenging opposing lineups with their 95-mile-per-hour fastballs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"270\" data-total-count=\"1098\">His blistering fastball, and his poise, received an early showcase at the end of his rookie season with the Dodgers, when he was called in from the bullpen to protect a one-run lead with one out in the ninth inning of Game 2 of the 1978 World Series against the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"231\" data-total-count=\"1329\">Two men were on base, and after getting Thurman Munson to fly out he faced Reggie Jackson, the Hall of Fame slugger who the year before had clinched the Series for the Yankees, also against the Dodgers, with three homers in Game 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"293\" data-total-count=\"1622\">In an at-bat that lasted more than five minutes and became one of baseball\u2019s most famous showdowns, Welch, who was just 21, threw nine pitches, all fastballs, and with a 3-2 count blazed one on \u2014 or maybe just off \u2014 the inside corner. Jackson swung violently and missed, ending the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"293\" data-total-count=\"1622\">[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/11\/sports\/bob-welch-pitching-ace-and-rangy-prototype-for-todays-power-arms-is-dead-at-57.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at LATimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The LA Times Bob Welch, Pitching Ace and Prototype for Today\u2019s Power Arms, Dies at 57 Bob Welch, a flame-throwing right-hander for the\u00a0Los Angeles Dodgers\u00a0and the\u00a0Oakland A\u2019s\u00a0who overcame alcoholism to win 211 games, including 27 in 1990, a single-season total no other pitcher has reached in the past 40 years, died on Monday in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}