{"id":4423,"date":"2010-07-26T22:39:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T05:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2010-07-26T23:52:07","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T06:52:07","slug":"aussie-steelers-celebrate-their-anniversary-as-world-champions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4423","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Steelers celebrate their anniversary as World Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cap tip, Al Doran:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>File this one under &#8220;How time flies&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.softball.org.au\/_uploads\/img\/1_61352m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>27 July 2010<\/p>\n<p>Today marks the anniversary of the Australian Open Men&#8217;s fastpitch Softball team &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softball.org.au\/extra.asp?ID=19719\"><strong>the Aussie Steelers<\/strong> <\/a>&#8211; being crowned the World Champions at the XII ISF Men&#8217;s World Championships in Saskatoon, Canada. Sixteen countries took part in the Championship and the Steelers finished the round robin play with a 6-1 win-loss record, their only loss coming against host nation Canada in an extra-innings thriller. It was possibly this game which sparked something within as the team came into their own during the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>As we all reminisce and relive that momentous occasion, read the thoughts of those who were there in <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=http:\/\/www.softball.org.au\/_uploads\/res\/1_59430.pdf\"><strong>World Champions &#8211; one year on<\/strong><\/a>, watch the video highlights from the gold medal game and<a href=\"http:\/\/softball.org.au\/photogal.asp?OrgID=1&#038;menu=16021\"> <strong>view the photo gallery<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vIyxF2df-3M&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vIyxF2df-3M&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cap tip, Al Doran: File this one under &#8220;How time flies&#8221; 27 July 2010 Today marks the anniversary of the Australian Open Men&#8217;s fastpitch Softball team &#8211; the Aussie Steelers &#8211; being crowned the World Champions at the XII ISF Men&#8217;s World Championships in Saskatoon, Canada. Sixteen countries took part in the Championship and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,17,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423"}],"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=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}