{"id":321911,"date":"2026-08-15T05:38:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T05:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321911\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T05:38:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T05:38:52","slug":"former-new-york-met-lawton-native-butch-huskey-passes-away-at-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321911\/","title":{"rendered":"Former New York Met, Lawton native Butch Huskey passes away at 54"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) &#8211; Butch Huskey, the former Eisenhower Eagle-turned-New York Met, has died at age 54, the Mets say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe are saddened to learn about the passing of former Met Butch Huskey,\u201d the Mets said in a social media statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A cause of death has not been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Huskey was an all-around athlete, playing multiple sports with the Eagles and was eventually drafted out of high school to the Mets in the 7th round of the 1989 MLB Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KSWO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) &#8211; Butch Huskey, the former Eisenhower Eagle-turned-New York Met, has died at age 54, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49238,121315,49237,121314,9,11,320,10,12,121316,63,3028],"class_list":["post-321911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-7news","tag-butch-huskey","tag-kswo","tag-lawton-native","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-ny-met","tag-nyc","tag-oklahoma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}