{"id":194861,"date":"2022-02-07T00:04:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T01:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=194861"},"modified":"2022-02-07T01:58:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T01:58:50","slug":"a-year-after-bob-gibson-retired-as-the-scariest-pitcher-to-ever-grace-the-baseball-mound-a-new-legend-took-up-the-scary-man-mantle-cricket-bowler-michael-whispering-death-holding-heres-a-helm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=194861","title":{"rendered":"A year after Bob Gibson retired as the scariest pitcher to ever grace the baseball mound, a new legend took up the Scary Man mantle: cricket bowler Michael &#8220;Whispering Death&#8221; Holding. Here&#8217;s a helmet-less 44 year old Brian Close showing off his giant balls while facing down Holding in 1976."},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sports\/comments\/smd2pw\/a_year_after_bob_gibson_retired_as_the_scariest\/\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/external-preview.redd.it\/ZE2IKGSMJeCsAjfMCwaIZIhV9StgGEXjiKBNf3IAawc.png?width=320&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=240ff02d88d49a15d7c35283d956140981047661\" alt=\"A year after Bob Gibson retired as the scariest pitcher to ever grace the baseball mound, a new legend took up the Scary Man mantle: cricket bowler Michael &quot;Whispering Death&quot; Holding. Here&#039;s a helmet-less 44 year old Brian Close showing off his giant balls while facing down Holding in 1976.\" title=\"A year after Bob Gibson retired as the scariest pitcher to ever grace the baseball mound, a new legend took up the Scary Man mantle: cricket bowler Michael &quot;Whispering Death&quot; Holding. Here&#039;s a helmet-less 44 year old Brian Close showing off his giant balls while facing down Holding in 1976.\" \/> <\/a> <\/td>\n<td> &#032; submitted by &#032; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Ernest_Hemingay\"> \/u\/Ernest_Hemingay <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/v.redd.it\/9eal54084bg81\">[link]<\/a><\/span> &#032; <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sports\/comments\/smd2pw\/a_year_after_bob_gibson_retired_as_the_scariest\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>&#032; submitted by &#032; \/u\/Ernest_Hemingay [link] &#032; [comments]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194863,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194861\/revisions\/194863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}