{"id":438090,"date":"2023-06-18T12:48:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T16:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438090"},"modified":"2023-06-18T12:49:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T16:49:13","slug":"david-freese-declines-induction-to-cardinals-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/david-freese-declines-induction-to-cardinals-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"David Freese declines induction to Cardinals&#8217; Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Cardinals&#8217; third baseman David Freese has declined his induction into the team&#8217;s Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Freese played a pivotal role in his hometown club path to their memorable success in 2011, when they lifted the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>As a result he was the one, who gathered the most votes by the fans for this year&#8217;s class, but in an online statement he declined the honor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is something that I have given an extreme amount of thought to, humbly, even before the voting process began. I am aware of the impact I had helping the team bring great memories to the city I grew up in, including the 11th championship, but this honor means more to me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">David Freese, a hometown kid who grew up looking up at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cardinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Cardinals<\/a> greats before he became a Cardinal, explains his decision to decline induction into the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Stlcards?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Stlcards<\/a> Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>His quote: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8WNYRRZjGd\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/8WNYRRZjGd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Derrick Goold (@dgoold) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dgoold\/status\/1670142896018694144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That leaves Jose Oquendo and Max Lanier to be selected and honored with a special ceremony on August 20.<\/p>\n<p>Freese was the MVP of the 2011 World Series and NL Championship Series. He batted .397 with five home runs and 21 RBIs in 18 postseason games that year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Cardinals&#8217; third baseman David Freese has declined his induction into the team&#8217;s Hall of Fame. Freese played a pivotal role in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":438091,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18518],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[19962,18520],"acf":{"announce":"The former third baseman humbly refused the honor","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438090"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438090"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}