{"id":20559,"date":"2013-03-14T10:29:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T17:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=20559"},"modified":"2013-03-14T12:32:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T19:32:55","slug":"new-zealand-black-sox-in-sports-illustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=20559","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Black Sox in Sports Illustrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cap tip and photo from Vahram Mateosian, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VahramMateosian\">self-described on his Twitter page<\/a> as &#8220;Master tailor and debater. Little used softball substitute.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Big time ink for the 2013 ISF World Champion New Zealand Black Sox.  A double-truck centerfold on page 7 of Sports Illustrated.  At your newstands now.  Grab one before they&#8217;re all gone!<\/p>\n<p>I recall a small head shot of former USA catcher Todd Garcia &#8220;Faces in the Crowd&#8221; years ago and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=19386\">this 1979 piece on Ty Stofflet<\/a>, but it&#8217;s been a long time since we found men&#8217;s fastpitch in S.I.   Great pub for the game.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20560\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20560\" style=\"width: 472px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/NZBS.in_.SI_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/NZBS.in_.SI_.jpg\" alt=\"New Zealand Black Sox at page 7 of Sports Illustrated. (click to enlarge)\" width=\"472\" height=\"633\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20560\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/NZBS.in_.SI_.jpg 716w, http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/NZBS.in_.SI_-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Zealand Black Sox at page 7 of Sports Illustrated. (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cap tip and photo from Vahram Mateosian, self-described on his Twitter page as &#8220;Master tailor and debater. Little used softball substitute.&#8221; Big time ink for the 2013 ISF World Champion New Zealand Black Sox. A double-truck centerfold on page 7 of Sports Illustrated. At your newstands now. Grab one before they&#8217;re all gone! I recall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,35,21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-isf","8":"category-oceania","9":"category-teams","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20559"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20568,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20559\/revisions\/20568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}