{"id":1003,"date":"2006-06-27T08:27:48","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T16:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2006-06-27T08:52:15","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T16:52:15","slug":"kevin-herlihy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Herlihy, Recovering from Heart Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\"><strong>From Al&#8217;s Fastball: <\/strong><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mail-archive.com\/alsfastball%40fastpitchwest.com\/msg01087.html\">Kevin Herlihy<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBest wishes are extended to one of the legends of the sport, Kevin Herlihy, recovering in Waikato Hospital following a heart attack. From all reports Kevin was &#8220;lucky&#8221; to have been in hospitalal ready after an earlier mild attack, when he suffered a more severe heart attack requiring surgery. Now out of the ICU Kevin is making steady progress. If you wish to drop Kevin a note or a card to wish him, Sandra and the family well, it can be sent to Kevin Herlihy, Cardiac Care Unit, Waikato Hospital, Private Bag 3200, Hamilton. <\/p>\n<p>Dale Eagar CEO SOFTBALL NEW ZEALAND &#8211; PITCHING FOR THE FUTURE<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note:  Kevin Herlihy was one of the greatest pitchers of his era.  I had the good fortunte to call him a teammate in Lakewood in 1986.    When David Blackburn organized an ISC <a href=\"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=833\">Hall of Fame &#8220;Tribute to Legends&#8221;<\/a> earlier this year, to celebrate the upcoming induction of Ed Klecker, and Greg Sepulveda, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/photos\/2006\/HOF_dinner\/HOF_Dinner_063_031806.JPG\">Herlihy made arrangements to phone in from his native New Zealand, <\/a>(Hice Stiles holding the mike in photo) to wish his best to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/photos\/2006\/HOF_dinner\/HOF_Dinner_068_031806.JPG\">teammate Sepulveda<\/a>.   The two were teammates when the Lancaster Chameleons won the 1983 ISC World Tournament.  We wish a speedy recovery for Kevin.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Al&#8217;s Fastball: Kevin Herlihy Best wishes are extended to one of the legends of the sport, Kevin Herlihy, recovering in Waikato Hospital following a heart attack. From all reports Kevin was &#8220;lucky&#8221; to have been in hospitalal ready after an earlier mild attack, when he suffered a more severe heart attack requiring surgery. Now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}