{"id":10410,"date":"2011-05-10T15:25:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T22:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=10410"},"modified":"2011-05-10T15:26:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T22:26:45","slug":"future-of-fastball-in-kitchener-to-be-debated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=10410","title":{"rendered":"Future of fastball in Kitchener to be debated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6710\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6710\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecord.com\/sports\/local\/article\/530065--future-of-fastball-to-be-debated\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/record-jpg-150x66.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"record jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"66\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6710\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click logo for original news story at TheRecord.com<\/figcaption><\/figure><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecord.com\/sports\/local\/article\/530065--future-of-fastball-to-be-debated\">From The Record<\/a><br \/>\nBy Christine Rivet, Record staff <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>KITCHENER \u2014 Is fastball dead in Waterloo Region?<\/p>\n<p>Don (Pete) McIlwraith, for one, would like to know.<\/p>\n<p>Regarded as the game\u2019s world-wide epicentre as recently as two summers ago, the region has since seen two of the sport\u2019s premier teams, the Kitchener Rivershark Twins and the Kitchener Krush, fold.<\/p>\n<p>And now McIlwraith, a local fastball promoter, has sent out invitations to Waterloo Region\u2019s fastball community for a symposium to discuss whether the game has a future here.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting is Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Kitchener\u2019s Activa Sportsplex.<\/p>\n<p>All interested parties are invited to attend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no idea what might transpire,\u201d he said this week. \u201cI have information regarding some (world and national) events that could be bid on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the question is \u2014 are the softball people in the K-W area at all interested?\u201d  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecord.com\/sports\/local\/article\/530065--future-of-fastball-to-be-debated\">Click here to read the complete story at &#8220;The Record&#8221;.<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5012464944583968\";\n\/* Ballparkradio Main *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2176237682\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Record By Christine Rivet, Record staff KITCHENER \u2014 Is fastball dead in Waterloo Region? Don (Pete) McIlwraith, for one, would like to know. Regarded as the game\u2019s world-wide epicentre as recently as two summers ago, the region has since seen two of the sport\u2019s premier teams, the Kitchener Rivershark Twins and the Kitchener [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"category-isc","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10413,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10410\/revisions\/10413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}