{"id":20575,"date":"2013-03-19T13:39:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T20:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=20575"},"modified":"2013-03-19T14:48:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T21:48:42","slug":"todd-garcia-in-sports-illustrated-circa-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=20575","title":{"rendered":"Todd Garcia in Sports Illustrated &#8211; circa 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_20577\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20577\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/vault\/article\/magazine\/MAG1028555\/index.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SI_Vault-300x74.jpg\" alt=\"Click logo to view original story.\" width=\"300\" height=\"74\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20577\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SI_Vault-300x74.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SI_Vault-1024x252.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click logo to view original story.<\/figcaption><\/figure><em>What, you were hoping for Kate Upton?<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=20559\">our recent post on the photo of the 2013 World Champion New Zealand Black Sox, in Sports Illustrated<\/a>, we noted that the last time (to our knowledge) the magazine mentioned men&#8217;s fastpitch was the blurb on former Team USA catcher, Todd Garcia, in &#8220;Faces in the Crowd&#8221; It was roughly ten years ago, on April 14, 2003, touting his performance at the Pan-Am games when he helped the USA beat Canada for the gold medal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Todd Garcia, WOODBRIDGE, CALIF. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fast-pitch Softball<br \/>\nGarcia, 35, a catcher for the U.S. national team, hit two home runs to give his team a 2-1 victory over Canada and the gold medal at the Pan Am Games Qualifier in Guatemala City. In the 15-game tournament Garcia batted .484 and had six homers and 17 RBIs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The cover story that week was on the Syracuse Orangemen:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SI_0414_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SI_0414_large-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"SI_0414_large\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20583\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SI_0414_large-230x300.jpg 230w, http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/SI_0414_large.jpg 442w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What, you were hoping for Kate Upton? 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