{"id":34786,"date":"2015-02-01T00:50:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T05:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=34786"},"modified":"2015-02-01T00:50:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T05:50:37","slug":"chris-sales-41-retired-at-fgcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/02\/chris-sales-41-retired-at-fgcu\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Sale\u2019s 41 <br>Retired At FGCU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-34787\" title=\"IMG_6006\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_6006-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_6006-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_6006-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Former FGCU baseball player and Chicago White Sox pitcher, Chris Sale, became the first student-athlete at FGCU to have his number retired.<\/p>\n<p>At halftime at the men\u2019s basketball game Saturday night, his former coach, the university and the fans honored Sale by retiring his jersey at center court. They unveiled his jersey in front of a packed house at Alico Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Sale is one of just six players ever to play in the big leagues the same year he was drafted. Number 41 will never be worn again by a baseball player on the FGCU team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of things went into the person that I evolved into,\u201d Sale said, \u201cI owe this school a lot. That\u2019s why I smile people think I do a lot for the school; they\u2019ve done more for me than I can ever think of.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former FGCU baseball player and Chicago White Sox pitcher, Chris Sale, became the first student-athlete at FGCU to have his number retired. At halftime at the men\u2019s basketball game Saturday&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}