{"id":13356,"date":"2015-03-03T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T03:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beesball.com\/wordpress\/?p=13356"},"modified":"2015-03-03T22:48:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T03:48:46","slug":"riccardo-ingram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beesball.com\/wordpress\/?p=13356","title":{"rendered":"Riccardo Ingram again battling brain cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/sports\/twins\/blogs\/294894881.html\"><strong>StarTribune.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sad note<\/strong><br \/>\nPopular Twins minor league coach <strong>Riccardo Ingram<\/strong> will not be present at spring training this year as he fights for his life a second time because of the return of brain cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Ingram, 48, is being treated in Atlanta, which is not far from his home in Lilburn, Ga., and where his family can keep an eye on him.<\/p>\n<p>`I don&#8217;t think anything is impossible with Riccardo,&#8221; Twins General Manager Terry Ryan said. &#8220;He&#8217;s overcome a lot of odds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, Ingram experienced pounding headaches that led to the discovery of Grade 4 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abta.org\/brain-tumor-information\/types-of-tumors\/glioblastoma.html\"><strong>glioblastoma<\/strong><\/a> in the front of his brain. At the time, 90-95 percent of people with that type of cancer die within a year. But Ingram underwent six weeks of radiation therapy and survived. The Twins helped out by naming him a roving hitting instructor between Class AAA Rochester and Class AA New Britain. That allowed him to make visits to Duke University Medical Center for follow up care.<\/p>\n<p>Ingram is scheduled to be the hitting coach for the Gulf Coast League rookie team this season.<\/p>\n<p>A fourth-round pick by the Tigers in 1987, Ingram played 12 games with the Tigers in 1994 and four with the Twins in 1995. He&#8217;s been coaching in the Twins farm system since 1998.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From StarTribune.com Sad note Popular Twins minor league coach Riccardo Ingram will not be present at spring training this year as he fights for his life a second time because of the return of brain cancer. Ingram, 48, is being treated in Atlanta, which is not far from his home in Lilburn, Ga., and where [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-in-the-pros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beesball.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beesball.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beesball.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beesball.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beesball.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beesball.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13358,"href":"https:\/\/beesball.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13356\/revisions\/13358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beesball.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beesball.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beesball.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}