{"id":14033,"date":"2011-08-24T22:19:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T05:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=14033"},"modified":"2011-08-24T22:20:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T05:20:38","slug":"lanny-rupp-2011-isc-hall-of-fame-inductee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=14033","title":{"rendered":"Lanny Rupp &#8211; 2011 ISC Hall of Fame inductee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Bob Otto, Otto in Focus<\/em><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12650\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12650\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ottoinfocus.com\/?p=5885\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ottoinfocus-300x72.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ottoinfocus\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ottoinfocus-300x72.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ottoinfocus.jpg 825w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click photo for Otto in Focus website.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LONG BEACH, CA \u2013 In the 1970s and &#8217;80s, great players, great teams and great managers abounded in southern California\u2019s Western Softball Congress.<\/p>\n<p>But when it came to recruiting, no one was as great as the late Lanny Rupp.<\/p>\n<p>Rupp was the general manager and manager of the Lakewood Jets. If Rupp wanted to sign a top-caliber player, he went after him with a salesman\u2019s charm and a bulldog\u2019s gusto. <\/p>\n<p>Most times, he landed his target. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe worked, he plotted, he planned and he recruited, recruited, recruited,\u201d said Hice Stiles, who played with and against Rupp in the Western Softball Congress (WSC)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottoinfocus.com\">www.ottoinfocus.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bob Otto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bob Otto, Otto in Focus LONG BEACH, CA \u2013 In the 1970s and &#8217;80s, great players, great teams and great managers abounded in southern California\u2019s Western Softball Congress. But when it came to recruiting, no one was as great as the late Lanny Rupp. Rupp was the general manager and manager of the Lakewood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12651,"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":[10,22,20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-isc","8":"category-people","9":"category-so-cal","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033","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=14033"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14036,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033\/revisions\/14036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}