{"id":564519,"date":"2026-02-10T17:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/564519\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T17:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:57:22","slug":"former-st-louis-cardinal-and-heartland-native-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/564519\/","title":{"rendered":"Former St. Louis Cardinal and Heartland native passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CLARKTON, Mo. (KFVS) &#8211; Heartland native and former Major League Baseball player Gary Blaylock has passed away in Clarkton, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to Baseball Reference, Blaylock pitched in 41 combined games for the St. Louis Cardinals and New York Yankees in 1959.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Yankees shared news of Blaylock\u2019s passing on their Facebook page. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to Baseball Reference, Blaylock was born in Clarkton, Missouri in 1931.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Blaylock went 4-6 with a 4.80 ERA in 125.2 innings pitched in his one season in the majors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KFVS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLARKTON, Mo. (KFVS) &#8211; Heartland native and former Major League Baseball player Gary Blaylock has passed away in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,74354,160,74355,3470,343,288,4532,3736,4,292,287,673,67,4311,4310,142,293],"class_list":["post-564519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-baseball","tag-blaylock","tag-cardinals","tag-clarkton","tag-gary","tag-league","tag-louis","tag-major","tag-missouri","tag-mlb","tag-new","tag-st","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouiscardinals","tag-yankees","tag-york"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116047632473979810","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}