{"id":104668,"date":"2025-10-28T05:44:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/104668\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T05:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:44:19","slug":"statue-of-legendary-area-sportscaster-damaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/104668\/","title":{"rendered":"Statue of legendary area sportscaster damaged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5b55c238079d2aac4d2f99e1734ba7df.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Just months after its unveiling, someone damaged the statue of a legendary local sportscaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The statue, honoring Marty Brennaman, located between those of Pete Rose and Joe Morgan at Crosley Terrace, was created by artist Tom Tsuchiya to honor Brennaman\u2019s 46-year career as the voice of the Reds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was unveiled on Sept. 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TRENDING STORIES:<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The microphone of the statue was broken off, according to our news partners at WCPO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Cincinnati Reds spokesperson confirmed they are aware of the damage and are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Brennaman expressed that the statue was one of his greatest honors, even more significant than his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WCPO reached out to Cincinnati Police to see if they are investigating the damage, but they have not heard back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just months after its unveiling, someone damaged the statue of a legendary local sportscaster. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,75842,3789,111,139,69,75841,55691,75843,75840],"class_list":["post-104668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-joe-morgan","tag-marty-brennaman","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pete-rose","tag-reds","tag-trending-stories","tag-wcpo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}