{"id":15433,"date":"2011-11-01T11:40:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T18:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=15433"},"modified":"2011-11-01T11:40:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T18:40:34","slug":"hawkes-bay-nz-softball-legend-honoured-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=15433","title":{"rendered":"Hawkes Bay NZ softball legend honoured again"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6391\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6391\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawkesbaytoday.co.nz\/news\/bay-softball-legend-honoured-again\/1157467\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Hawkes.Bay_.logo_.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"Hawkes.Bay.logo\" width=\"200\" height=\"120\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6391\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click logo for complete news story and photo at Hawkes Bay Today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>By SHANE HURNDELL <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hawke&#8217;s Bay softball legend Chubb Tangaroa has been experiencing considerable pain in recent weeks while awaiting a hernia operation.<\/p>\n<p>However, that pain was eased a little yesterday when Tangaroa heard he was one of three Kiwis to be inducted into the International Softball Federation&#8217;s Hall of Fame at the congress meeting in Oklahoma City at the weekend. Former White Sox pitcher Gina Weber and former Black Sox statistician Russell Moffat were the others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did a lot of hard yards in the game and now I&#8217;m being recognised. The awards keep coming,&#8221; said Tangaroa who joins another former Bay pitcher Owen Walford in the ISF Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year Tangaroa was inducted into the Hawke&#8217;s Bay Sports Hall of Fame and he has previously been inducted into Softball New Zealand&#8217;s Hall of Fame. In June the three-time world champion became the first international inductee at the Legends of Fastball Classic in Canada. Tangaroa hopes to have a presentation function to celebrate his ISF induction in Hawke&#8217;s Bay later this summer.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawkesbaytoday.co.nz\/news\/bay-softball-legend-honoured-again\/1157467\/\">Click here to continue reading and to view photo of Chubb.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By SHANE HURNDELL Hawke&#8217;s Bay softball legend Chubb Tangaroa has been experiencing considerable pain in recent weeks while awaiting a hernia operation. However, that pain was eased a little yesterday when Tangaroa heard he was one of three Kiwis to be inducted into the International Softball Federation&#8217;s Hall of Fame at the congress meeting in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6391,"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":[9,12,35,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"category-isf","9":"category-oceania","10":"category-players","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15433","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=15433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15434,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15433\/revisions\/15434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}