{"id":42778,"date":"2024-01-31T03:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=42778"},"modified":"2024-01-31T09:50:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T17:50:19","slug":"passing-of-wisconsin-fastpitch-legend-and-hall-of-famer-john-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=42778","title":{"rendered":"Passing of Wisconsin Fastpitch Legend and Hall of Famer John Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our condolences to friends and family.?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the ISC tribute (see link below for complete)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&nbsp;Wisconsin loved John Miller. More specifically Wisconsin fastpitch teams, players and fans really loved John Miller. His resources, generosity and passion for the game made indelible marks on state teams for close to a half century, including the Denmark Dukes, Denmark Circle Tap, and the myriad of squads in the stable of \u201cBar\u201d teams. His support has also been significant for the Circle Tap tournaments for more than 20 years as well as more than 30 years of community involvement for the Knights of Columbus Denmark tournaments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;John passed away on Sunday, January 28 at the age of 86 after a lenthy illness. He was inducted into the ISC Hall of Fame in 2012 as a recipient of the Bob Welby Memorial Award in recognition of his dedication to the game.?<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iscfastpitch.com\/passing-of-john-miller\">Click here to continue reading.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The ISC is saddened by the passing of 2012 Hall of Famer John Miller, former Circle Tap owner, founder of The Bar franchise and a long-time fastpitch supporter in Wisconsin. Please see our tribute to John at the link below. Photo courtesy of Dean Kane<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/irNe1xDSmt\">https:\/\/t.co\/irNe1xDSmt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IJAGGaXFXI\">pic.twitter.com\/IJAGGaXFXI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ISCFastpitch (@ISCFastpitch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ISCFastpitch\/status\/1752456571416633690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our condolences to friends and family.? From the ISC tribute (see link below for complete) &nbsp;Wisconsin loved John Miller. More specifically Wisconsin fastpitch teams, players and fans really loved John Miller. His resources, generosity and passion for the game made indelible marks on state teams for close to a half century, including the Denmark Dukes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[28,60,10,22],"tags":[990,910,1425],"class_list":{"0":"post-42778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-featured","7":"category-inmemoriam","8":"category-isc","9":"category-people","10":"tag-circletap","11":"tag-iscfastpitch","12":"tag-thebar","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42778","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=42778"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42783,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42778\/revisions\/42783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}