{"id":780802,"date":"2026-08-17T04:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T04:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/780802\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T04:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T04:46:08","slug":"skip-bertmans-celebration-of-life-details-announced-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/780802\/","title":{"rendered":"Skip Bertman\u2019s Celebration of Life details announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) &#8211; A public Celebration of Life for legendary LSU baseball coach Skip Bertman is scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 25, at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center (PMAC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Bertman family, the event will begin at 7 p.m., with doors opening to the public at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A private gathering for Bertman\u2019s family, former LSU baseball players and staff will be held beforehand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Bertman led LSU baseball to five national championships and helped build the program into one of college baseball\u2019s most successful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplctv.com\/2026\/08\/17\/skip-bertmans-celebration-life-details-announced\/mailto:typo@wafb.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kplctv.com\/2026\/08\/17\/skip-bertmans-celebration-life-details-announced\/mailto:typo@wafb.com\">Click here<\/a> to report a typo. Please include the headline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wafb.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wafb.com\/newsletter\/\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our WAFB 9 News daily digest and breaking news alerts delivered straight to your email inbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Watch the latest WAFB news and weather now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) &#8211; A public Celebration of Life for legendary LSU baseball coach Skip Bertman is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2289],"tags":[14334,5,95825,11000,648,7264,7793,1681,3619,1694,2341,214,13779,1682,1518],"class_list":["post-780802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-college-baseball","tag-announced","tag-baseball","tag-bertman","tag-celebration","tag-college-baseball","tag-details","tag-life","tag-louisiana","tag-lsu","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-baseball","tag-of","tag-skip","tag-state","tag-university"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117109036400468382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780802","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=780802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}