{"id":23721,"date":"2014-07-04T02:06:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T09:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=23721"},"modified":"2014-07-04T02:07:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T09:07:41","slug":"kitchener-teen-playing-for-canada-in-international-softball-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=23721","title":{"rendered":"Kitchener teen playing for Canada in international softball match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/JohnnyBaker.Canadian.Jr_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/JohnnyBaker.Canadian.Jr_-300x300.png\" alt=\"JohnnyBaker.Canadian.Jr\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/JohnnyBaker.Canadian.Jr_-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/JohnnyBaker.Canadian.Jr_-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/JohnnyBaker.Canadian.Jr_-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/JohnnyBaker.Canadian.Jr_.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><em>By Josh Brown, The Record.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>KITCHENER \u2014 You would be hard pressed to find a local more dedicated to softball than Johnny Baker.<\/p>\n<p>He smacked his first hit at six years old and umpired his first game three years later. Heck, the former Grand River Collegiate Institute student even skipped his prom to hit the diamond last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was an elimination game,&#8221; the Kitchener native said. &#8220;I missed my prom, threw a no-hitter and hit a home run.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, perhaps it&#8217;s no surprise that the pitcher\/utility player was a prime target when Canada was rounding out its roster for the International Softball Federation&#8217;s world junior men&#8217;s championships that runs July 11-20 in Whitehorse, Yukon.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecord.com\/sports-story\/4605114-kitchener-teen-playing-for-canada-in-international-softball-match\/\">Click here to continue reading at The Record. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Josh Brown, The Record.com KITCHENER \u2014 You would be hard pressed to find a local more dedicated to softball than Johnny Baker. He smacked his first hit at six years old and umpired his first game three years later. Heck, the former Grand River Collegiate Institute student even skipped his prom to hit the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23723,"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":[5,9,12,19,27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"category-international","9":"category-isf","10":"category-players","11":"category-youth","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23721","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=23721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23726,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23721\/revisions\/23726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}