{"id":4580,"date":"2010-08-22T11:20:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T18:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4580"},"modified":"2010-08-30T11:33:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T18:33:39","slug":"first-team-all-world-honors-for-calem-gardener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4580","title":{"rendered":"First Team ISC All World Honors for Calem Gardner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/Calem.Gardner.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/Calem.Gardner.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congrats to Calem Gardner, who earned first team All World honors as a member of the Taylor Farms California A&#8217;s, at the 2010 ISC World Tournament.   Gardner was 7 for 13 for a jaw dropping .538 average.   The 33 year old outfielder known to teammates as &#8220;Dogg&#8221;, hails from Squamish, British Columbia, Canada, (near Vancouver).<\/p>\n<p>Gardner started playing fastball at 22 after growing up playing hardball, severely broke his femur bone in his leg when he was 25 and missed 3 years of ball, and told he probably would never play again.  Now, he plays locally in Squamish for the Squamish Wizards and in the Vancouver Premier League\/ Lower Mainland League for the Vancouver Meralomas (Derek Mayson).  Caleb played 3 years for the Vancouver Grey Sox (including the year they won the Canadian Nationals in 1997, but couldn&#8217;t make the trip due to a shoulder injury).  Before that with the Squamish Greg Gardner team in the old Nor West league before he broke his leg. He was named to team Canada&#8217;s 40 man National team roster this year.   Gardner previously played Senior A mens hockey for the Squamish Cyclones, and continues to play hockey in the winter months.<\/p>\n<p>His selection marks the second year in a row that the A&#8217;s have placed a member on the First team All World squad.  Last year, it was Todd Budke, who also snared the batting title at the 2009 ISC World Tournament at Quad Cities, Iowa.<\/p>\n<p><em>Caleb was awarded a Combat bat courtesy of the ISC broadcast team and Combat Sports Group.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to Calem Gardner, who earned first team All World honors as a member of the Taylor Farms California A&#8217;s, at the 2010 ISC World Tournament. Gardner was 7 for 13 for a jaw dropping .538 average. The 33 year old outfielder known to teammates as &#8220;Dogg&#8221;, hails from Squamish, British Columbia, Canada, (near Vancouver). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,3,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580"}],"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=4580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}