{"id":28549,"date":"2021-11-20T19:09:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T23:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28549"},"modified":"2021-11-20T19:09:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T23:09:54","slug":"rip-art-lafleur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28549","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Art LaFleur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2021\/z112021rip_art_lafleur.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"487\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On November 17th, Art LaFleur, the actor best known for his role as Babe Ruth in the movie <em>The Sandlot<\/em>, died after a decade long battle with Parkinson&#8217;s disease.\u00a0 Mr. LaFleur was 78.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Art LaFleur served as a sports broadcaster for both<em> CBS<\/em> and <em>ESPN<\/em>, but it was his nearly 170 acting roles that made him famous.\u00a0 He alternated between movie and television in a career that lasted nearly 40 years!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I always enjoyed whenever Art LaFleur showed up on screen.\u00a0 He appeared twice in Sly Stallone films (<em>Cobra<\/em> and <em>Oscar).<\/em>\u00a0 He also worked with Clint Eastwood, Nick Nolte, James Garner, Tom Hanks, Kevin Costner, Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr. and others making their movies even better.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our thoughts and prayers go out to Art LaFleur&#8217;s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 17th, Art LaFleur, the actor best known for his role as Babe Ruth in the movie The Sandlot,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28550,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28549\/revisions\/28550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}