{"id":22859,"date":"2025-08-07T09:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/americo-ortiz-father-of-david-ortiz-passes-away-baseball-legend-in-mourning\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T09:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:12:08","slug":"americo-ortiz-father-of-david-ortiz-passes-away-baseball-legend-in-mourning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/americo-ortiz-father-of-david-ortiz-passes-away-baseball-legend-in-mourning\/","title":{"rendered":"Am\u00e9rico Ortiz, father of David Ortiz, passes away: Baseball Legend in Mourning"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo.-\n\nThis Thursday, the death of Mr. Am\u00e9rico Ortiz, father of the legendary David Ortiz, member of the Dominican Baseball Hall of Fame, was confirmed.\n\nThe news was made public through sources close to the family, who sent a message to the program &#8220;Esto No es Radio&#8221;.\n\nThe father of &#8220;Big Papi&#8221; had faced health problems in recent times.\n\nIn an emotional social media post on Father&#8217;s Day, David Ortiz expressed his feelings towards his father. He wished his father good health and described him as one of the most important people in his life.\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/...\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Post Title<\/a><\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>You are one of the best things that has happened to me in my life and I truly don&#8217;t think that on my best day as a father that I am I can surpass you because you out of nowhere did too much just to see your children grow and without fear of being wrong there are no ways to surpass you dad<\/p><cite>David Ortiz<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nNo details about the funeral arrangements have been provided yet.\n\nAm\u00e9rico Ortiz was a fundamental figure in David Ortiz&#8217;s life and career. In his honor, David named his tobacco company &#8220;Am\u00e9rico Cigars&#8221;.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.- This Thursday, the death of Mr. Am\u00e9rico Ortiz, father of the legendary David Ortiz, member of the Dominican Baseball Hall of Fame, was confirmed. The news was made public through sources close to the family, who sent a message to the program &#8220;Esto No es Radio&#8221;. The father of &#8220;Big Papi&#8221; had faced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[6958,3382,708,477],"class_list":{"0":"post-22859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-americo-ortiz","9":"tag-david-ortiz","10":"tag-death","11":"tag-hall-of-fame"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}