{"id":2879,"date":"2008-09-03T18:41:53","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T01:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2008-09-03T18:49:19","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T01:49:19","slug":"no-more-asa-labor-day-nationals-after-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2879","title":{"rendered":"No More ASA Labor Day Nationals  after 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.asasoftball.com\/images\/home_top_left.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of our astute readers who posted a comment to the <a href=\"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2872\"><strong>Poll question<\/strong><\/a> (below) noted that starting in 2010, the ASA will no longer play their Class &#8220;A&#8221;, &#8220;B&#8221; and &#8220;C&#8221; National Tournaments over the Labor Day Weekend.    Instead,  it will be a month earlier, over the final weekend of July.   Sure enough:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.asasoftball.com\/about\/pdf\/asa_code.pdf\"><strong>ASA Code, Article 509<\/strong><\/a>  &#8220;Dates of Championship Play&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>EFFECTIVE 2010 Men&#8217;s Class A, Class B and Class C Fast Pitch. These National Championship Finals shall be scheduled on the weekend that includes the last Saturday in July and commence no earlier than 6:00 p.m. Wednesday and concluding no later than Sunday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our astute readers who posted a comment to the Poll question (below) noted that starting in 2010, the ASA will no longer play their Class &#8220;A&#8221;, &#8220;B&#8221; and &#8220;C&#8221; National Tournaments over the Labor Day Weekend. Instead, it will be a month earlier, over the final weekend of July. Sure enough: ASA Code, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879"}],"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=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}