{"id":19671,"date":"2013-02-10T22:44:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T06:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=19671"},"modified":"2013-02-10T22:45:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T06:45:38","slug":"mens-fast-pitch-reinstated-to-the-pan-am-games-to-be-played-in-toronto-canada-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=19671","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Fastpitch Reinstated to the Pan Am Games, to be played in Toronto, Canada in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From ASA&#8217;s Ron Radigonda:<\/em><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11428\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/asa_softball_logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/asa_softball_logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\".\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11428\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nI am happy to announce that the Pan American Sports Organization met<br \/>\ntoday in Jamaica and approved the reinstatement of Men&#8217;s Fast Pitch<br \/>\nSoftball to the Pan Am Games to be played in Toronto, Canada in 2015.<br \/>\n Men&#8217;s Fast Pitch was last played in the Pan Am Games in Santo Domingo in 2003. Men&#8217;s Fast Pitch was removed from the Pan Am Games in 2007 and 2011. Luckily PASO awarded the 2015 Games to Toronto and the Toronto Organizing Committee has been working diligently to have Men&#8217;s Fast Pitch reinstated to the Pan Am Games since they were awarded the rights to host the event.  I met members of the Organizing Committee nearly 3 years ago in Phoenix at a meeting of the USA NGB Executive Director and the inclusion of Men&#8217;s Fast Pitch was discussed at that time. From that first meeting the Organization Committee was behind the reinstatement and has worked hard on behalf of our sport. Softball Canada played a big part in the reinstatement of Men&#8217;s Fast Pitch to the Toronto Pan Am Games. Scott Blackmun, CEO of the United States Olympic Committee also backed our campaign and I am thankful for his support.  <\/p>\n<p>Needless to say 2015 will be a big year for Men&#8217;s Fast Pitch in the Americas as Toronto will host the Pan Am Games and Saskatoon, Canada will host the ISF Men&#8217;s World Championships. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ASA&#8217;s Ron Radigonda: I am happy to announce that the Pan American Sports Organization met today in Jamaica and approved the reinstatement of Men&#8217;s Fast Pitch Softball to the Pan Am Games to be played in Toronto, Canada in 2015. Men&#8217;s Fast Pitch was last played in the Pan Am Games in Santo Domingo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11428,"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":[3,5,12,38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-asa","8":"category-canada","9":"category-isf","10":"category-latinamerica","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19671","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=19671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19673,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19671\/revisions\/19673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}