{"id":238154,"date":"2026-04-12T20:35:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/former-world-series-manager-phil-garner-dies-at-76\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T20:35:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:35:59","slug":"former-world-series-manager-phil-garner-dies-at-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/former-world-series-manager-phil-garner-dies-at-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Former World Series manager Phil Garner dies at 76"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former MLB player and manager Phil Garner has died at 76.<\/p>\n<p>Garner died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/phil-garner-dies-at-76\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his family said in a statement<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He \u201cpassed away peacefully\u201d while surrounded by family.<\/p>\n<p> The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/pittsburgh_pirates\/22\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a>, where Garner spent the most memorable portion of his playing career, paid tribute to the former second baseman with a tribute to a \u201cbeloved member of the Pirates family.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/former_world_series_manager_phil_garner_dies_at_76\/s1_127_43719916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former MLB player and manager Phil Garner has died at 76. Garner died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his family said in a statement.\u00a0 He \u201cpassed away peacefully\u201d while surrounded by family. The Pittsburgh Pirates, where Garner spent the most memorable portion of his playing career, paid tribute to the former second baseman with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-238154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}