{"id":633859,"date":"2026-04-27T10:22:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/633859\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:22:36","slug":"100-year-old-wwii-veteran-honored-at-white-sox-game-against-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/633859\/","title":{"rendered":"100-year-old WWII veteran honored at White Sox game against Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago White Sox gave a metaphorical game ball to a World War II veteran, naming him their hero of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Frank Veselak, at 100 years young, got a well-deserved round of applause after he threw out the first pitch at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/nationals-over-white-sox-2-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sunday&#8217;s game against the Washington Nationals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Veselek is a lifelong Chicagoan who served with the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1944 to 1946, but his service doesn&#8217;t end there.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also been volunteering at the Brookfield Zoo for 40 years, and continues to do so as long as it doesn&#8217;t interfere with his bowling, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago White Sox gave a metaphorical game ball to a World War II veteran, naming him their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,5256,5882,591,85,5264],"class_list":{"0":"post-633859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-chicago-white-sox","11":"tag-major-league-baseball","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}