{"id":2878,"date":"2008-09-03T18:03:17","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T01:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2878"},"modified":"2008-09-03T18:17:54","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T01:17:54","slug":"great-britain-invite-for-2009-isf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2878","title":{"rendered":"Great Britain Invites Players  for 2009 ISF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our good friend Russ Snow, head coach for Great Britain&#8217;s 2009 ISF team, is looking for players to add to their World Championships &#8217;09 roster.   Russ, as many of our readers know, was a teammate of mine on the Vista Bombers in the early 1990&#8217;s, then played for Larry Miller Toyota, SLC, UT and Long Beach Painters in the later 1990&#8217;s, and has been a standout pitcher on a number of Master&#8217;s teams, including several National Championship squads.  Russ was named the <a href=\"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2142\">Outstanding Pitcher at last year&#8217;s NAFA Masters East<\/a>.   Russ spends part of his time in Great Britain, and part here in California, in the Escondido area, where he (though not his ranch) survived the <a href=\"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2216\">San Diego fires of 2007<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[London,  September 3rd 2008,] &#8211;  After qualifying for the World Championships &#8217;09 in Saskatoon a few weeks ago in  Copenhagen, Denmark, Great Britain&#8217;s Mens Fastpitch team is inviting all players with a British passport, or able to get one to get in touch with the GB staff.<\/p>\n<p>The 2009 ISF World Championships will be held from 17-26 July in Saskatoon, Canada. For those that want to apply for a British passport, you can only get one if one of your parents has a British  passport as well.<\/p>\n<p>Please contact us asap should you be interested<\/p>\n<p>Great Britain staff:<\/p>\n<p>Russ Snow, Head Coach, rjsnow(at) yahoo.com<br \/>\nNorman Ames, Assistant Coach,  norman.ames(at) gielissen.nl<br \/>\nStephen Fullan, Team Manager sfullan(at) ntlworld.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our good friend Russ Snow, head coach for Great Britain&#8217;s 2009 ISF team, is looking for players to add to their World Championships &#8217;09 roster. Russ, as many of our readers know, was a teammate of mine on the Vista Bombers in the early 1990&#8217;s, then played for Larry Miller Toyota, SLC, UT and Long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878"}],"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=2878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}