{"id":4763,"date":"2010-12-30T20:55:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T01:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2011-01-07T14:06:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T19:06:25","slug":"tom-vandergriff-known-as-the-father-of-the-mlbs-texas-rangers-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=4763","title":{"rendered":"MLB UPDATE: TOM VANDERGRIFF, KNOWN AS THE FATHER OF THE MLB&#8217;S  TEXAS RANGERS,  HAS DIED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TOMMY JOE\u00a0 VANDERGRIFF, THE MAN WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CREATION OF THE TEXAS RANGERS BASEBALL ORGANIZATION, LOCATED IN ARLINGTON TEXAS, HAS DIED.\u00a0 WHILE SERVING AS THE MAYOR OF ARLINGTON<\/strong> <strong>TEXAS, MR. VANDERGRIFF LOBBIED WITH THE GODS OF BASEBALL, AND ALSO, BOB SHORT, WHO WAS THE CURRENT OWNER OF THE THE WASHINGTON SENATORS, TO RELOCATE THE TEAM TO TEXAS. HE WAS FINALLY SUCCESSFUL IN THAT GREAT ENDEAVOR, AND BROUGHT TO ARLINGTON,\u00a0 THE SECOND MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL\u00a0 FRANCHISE IN THE STATE OF TEXAS. AND IN 2010, HE ULTIMATE DREAM CAME TRUE, AS THE TEXAS RANGERS WERE APART OF THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH, THE MLB&#8217;S WORLD SERIES. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MYBOYSAY NATION WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE HIS FAMILY ON HIS MANY ACCOMPLISHMENTS, AND SEND HIS FAMILY\u00a0 CONDOLENCES FROM,\u00a0 MBS SPORTS GROUP, THE PARENT COMPANY OF THE MYBOYSAY SPORTS BLOG.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MR. TOMMY JOE VANDERGRIFF WILL BE MISSED GREATLY, AND THE TEXAS RANGERS BASEBALL ORGANIZATION SHOULD ALWAYS APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT, WITHOUT THIS MAN, IT WOULD NOT BE A MLB FRANCHISE IN THE CITY OF ARLINGTON TEXAS!!!!!!!,\u00a0 REGARDLESS OF WHO THE PRESENT OWNER IS, THE PAST OWNER WAS, AND ALSO TO INCLUDE, THE FUTURE OWNER TO COME, AND THEY ALWAYS DO!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOMMY JOE\u00a0 VANDERGRIFF, THE MAN WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CREATION OF THE TEXAS RANGERS BASEBALL ORGANIZATION, LOCATED IN ARLINGTON TEXAS, HAS DIED.\u00a0 WHILE SERVING AS THE MAYOR OF ARLINGTON TEXAS, MR. VANDERGRIFF LOBBIED WITH THE GODS OF BASEBALL, AND ALSO, BOB SHORT, WHO WAS THE CURRENT OWNER OF THE THE WASHINGTON SENATORS, TO RELOCATE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,13,107,14,1,7,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","category-health","category-mlb-sports-news","category-most-commented","category-news","category-sports","category-us","category-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}