\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMike Greenwell, a former Boston Red Sox left fielder and current Lee County commissioner, died on Thursday. He was 62.The Lee County Government announced Greenwell’s death on social media.Greenwell had been living with medullary thyroid cancer, which prevented him from physically attending public meetings.In July 2022, Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Greenwell to the District 5 seat to replace the late commissioner Frank Mann, who had died in office.Greenwell announced his candidacy for the office in 2024 and won the election. Greenwell was a North Fort Myers High School graduate, played for the Boston Red Sox from 1982 to 1996, and was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2008.This is a developing story and will be updated.DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Mike Greenwell, a former Boston Red Sox left fielder and current Lee County commissioner, died on Thursday. He was 62.<\/p>\n
The Lee County Government announced Greenwell’s death on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tThis content is imported from Facebook. Greenwell had been living with medullary thyroid cancer<\/a>, which prevented him from physically attending public meetings.<\/p>\n In July 2022, Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Greenwell to the District 5 seat to replace the late commissioner Frank Mann, who had died in office.<\/p>\n Greenwell announced his candidacy for the office in 2024 and won the election. Greenwell was a North Fort Myers High School graduate, played for the Boston Red Sox from 1982 to 1996, and was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2008.<\/p>\n This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Greenwell, a former Boston Red Sox left fielder and current Lee County commissioner, died on Thursday. He…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43547,4,450,120923,16602,88,120921,120922,51235,451,16641,79197,3,16178,8293,19200,1079,16597,452,453,2986],"class_list":["post-212325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-alert","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-candidacy","tag-district","tag-entertainment","tag-former-red-sox-player","tag-gov-ron-desantis","tag-gulf-coast-news-app","tag-headlines","tag-late-news","tag-mike-greenwell","tag-news","tag-office","tag-phone","tag-seat","tag-sport","tag-thursday","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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