{"id":1415,"date":"2007-01-03T13:08:31","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T21:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2007-01-13T23:38:45","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T07:38:45","slug":"a-fans-view-of-the-aau-intl-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1415","title":{"rendered":"A Fan&#8217;s View of the AAU Int&#8217;l Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/aaulogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThis email was received in January 2005, and offers a fan&#8217;s perspective on the AAU International Tournament.   We thought it worthy of reprinting, as the 2007 tournament approaches:<\/p>\n<p>Received: 1\/26\/05 2:02:27 PM<br \/>\nFrom:  &#8220;DAN KARWOSKI&#8221; karwoski at ucnsb.net<br \/>\nSubject:  AAU INTERNATIONL FASTPITCH TOURNAMENT<br \/>\n &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>The Seventh Annual AAU Invitational Fastpitch Tournament was<br \/>\nplayed 20-23 January at Disney Wide World of Sports Complex in<br \/>\nKissimmee, Florida.   Four beautiful, sunny days, ideal for fastpitch<br \/>\nplayers; twenty-four teams from eight different countries and<br \/>\neight states competed on six manicured diamonds.  This is the<br \/>\nfifth year I have attended this tournament and it gets better<br \/>\neach year.  This tournament was far better than any of the ASA<br \/>\nmajor tournaments for the past ten years.  Many of the top players<br \/>\nfrom Canada and the USA participated.  Each year I am amazed<br \/>\nof how well the teams from the Caribbean, Central and South America<br \/>\nplay.  Most could easily compete in the ISC Major Championship.<\/p>\n<p>This tournament has evolved into one of the better tournaments<br \/>\nplayed in North America and I am certain that the participants<br \/>\nand fans appreciate the TIME and EFFORT that Ken Hackmeister<br \/>\nand Alex Linares gave to create so successful and endeavor.<\/p>\n<p>I stayed at the Howard Johnson Parkside several miles from the<br \/>\nballfields, in an excellent, very quiet room costing $36.00 a<br \/>\nnight, total, which included a large continental breakfast. A<br \/>\ntournament pass cost only $17.50 and the parking was free.  Many<br \/>\nreasonably priced restaurants near the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Karwoski<br \/>\njust an old fastpitch fan <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This email was received in January 2005, and offers a fan&#8217;s perspective on the AAU International Tournament. We thought it worthy of reprinting, as the 2007 tournament approaches: Received: 1\/26\/05 2:02:27 PM From: &#8220;DAN KARWOSKI&#8221; karwoski at ucnsb.net Subject: AAU INTERNATIONL FASTPITCH TOURNAMENT &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; The Seventh Annual AAU Invitational Fastpitch Tournament was played 20-23 January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415"}],"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=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}