{"id":27560,"date":"2015-06-21T15:02:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T22:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=27560"},"modified":"2015-06-22T13:09:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T20:09:06","slug":"before-the-black-sox-came-the-pilgrims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=27560","title":{"rendered":"Before the Black Sox came the Pilgrims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Classic !  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10152913635946931\">From Softball New Zealand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first New Zealand Men\u2019s Softball Team to attend a World Series, fondly known as the \u201cPilgrims\u201d  World Series 1966, Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p>Lovin&#8217; those Mad Men style hats.  Not shown in photo: Don Draper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10152913635946931\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pilgrims.jpg\" alt=\"Pilgrims\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27561\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pilgrims.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pilgrims-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pilgrims-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Pilgrims-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nEditor&#8217;s note:<\/strong> Kudos to Jim Williamson for spotting Kevin Herlihy in the back row of the above photo.  Jim also notes that Bill Massey was on this squad.  Who is Bill Massey you ask?  Jim Williamson <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=888&#038;dat=19590526&#038;id=1MhaAAAAIBAJ&#038;sjid=8HYDAAAAIBAJ&#038;pg=3893,3098327&#038;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">provides a bit of background here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classic ! From Softball New Zealand The first New Zealand Men\u2019s Softball Team to attend a World Series, fondly known as the \u201cPilgrims\u201d World Series 1966, Mexico City. Lovin&#8217; those Mad Men style hats. Not shown in photo: Don Draper. Editor&#8217;s note: Kudos to Jim Williamson for spotting Kevin Herlihy in the back row of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27561,"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":[9,12,35,21,82],"tags":[114,309],"class_list":{"0":"post-27560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"category-isf","9":"category-oceania","10":"category-teams","11":"category-wbsc","12":"tag-blacksox","13":"tag-pilgrims","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27560","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=27560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27596,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27560\/revisions\/27596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}