{"id":1463,"date":"2015-11-04T14:05:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T14:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2015-11-04T14:05:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T14:05:02","slug":"the-willie-stargell-celebrity-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/the-willie-stargell-celebrity-invitational\/","title":{"rendered":"The Willie Stargell Celebrity Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, November 6<sup>th<\/sup>-8<sup>th,<\/sup> is the Annual Willie Stargell Celebrity Invitational at Landfall! This year\u2019s celebrities include retired MLB, NBA, and NFL players, professional golfers, Olympians, actors, and coaches. A few of the celebrities attending include Cliff Livingston, Sydney Penny, Larry Rivers, Richard Roundtree, Greg Vaugn, and Cornelius Bennett.<\/p>\n<p>Wilver (Willie) Stargell was a World Series Champion, Hall of Famer, All-Star, and MVP baseball player for the Pittsburg Pirates from 1962 until 1982. With 475 career homeruns Willie was quick to become a baseball legend. He was known for his leadership on and off the field resulting in his teammates affectionately calling him \u201cPops\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The first event of the weekend is a private celebrity and sponsor reception on Friday night. Saturday 9:00am until 10:00am is the celebrity autograph signing at Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods in Mayfaire, followed by The Willie Stargell Auction Dinner and Dance that night at 6:00 at the Country Club of Landfall. Then on Sunday morning it\u2019s the Celebrity Invitational Golf Tournament at Landfall. Passes for the golf portion of the event are available for $20. For more information on attending the event go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williestargellfoundation.org\/2015-Attendees-Where.php%23invite\">http:\/\/www.williestargellfoundation.org\/2015-Attendees-Where.php#invite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Willie Stargell Foundation was started to raise funds to fight kidney disease. Thanks in part to the 12<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Willie Stargell Foundation held last year at Landfall, the Foundation was able to donate $100,000 in May 2015 to their grant recipients. The recipients include the Willie Stargell Kidney Dialysis Center at New Hanover Regional Medical Center, DaVita Dialysis Emergency Kidney Fund, and UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University, Eastern Carolina University, and Carolinas Medical Center Transplant Programs. To make a donation, visit the Willie Stargell Foundation Website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williestargellfoundation.org\/make-a-donation.php\">http:\/\/www.williestargellfoundation.org\/make-a-donation.php<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, November 6th-8th, is the Annual Willie Stargell Celebrity Invitational at Landfall! This year\u2019s celebrities include retired MLB, NBA, and NFL players, professional golfers, Olympians, actors, and coaches. A few of the celebrities attending include Cliff Livingston, Sydney Penny, Larry Rivers, Richard Roundtree, Greg Vaugn, and Cornelius Bennett. Wilver (Willie) Stargell was a World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}