{"id":24128,"date":"2014-08-03T12:01:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T19:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=24128"},"modified":"2014-08-03T12:11:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T19:11:54","slug":"joe-drach-pennsylvania-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=24128","title":{"rendered":"Joe Drach, Pennsylvania legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_24129\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24129\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citizensvoice.com\/arts-living\/1.1728496\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/williamsport_pa-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"Click map to view original story.\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/williamsport_pa-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/williamsport_pa.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click map to view original story.<\/figcaption><\/figure><a href=\"http:\/\/citizensvoice.com\/arts-living\/1.1728496\">From Citizens Voice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is rare to find one person to whom a sweeping societal change can be attributed. Business, health, education, the law, sports \u2026 all of these fields change over time. Many people contribute to the transitions and often the change is incremental.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Drach gets credit, or blame if one is so inclined, for the shift of men\u2019s softball in Northeastern Pennsylvania from fast-pitch to slow-pitch. He won\u2019t claim that mantle himself, but it is there as sure as a strike is a strike and a ball is a ball.<\/p>\n<p>Drach was so good as a fast-pitch hurler that the Northeastern Pennsylvania\u2019s men\u2019s fast-pitch softball sport was abandoned in favor of slow-pitch.  <a href=\"http:\/\/citizensvoice.com\/arts-living\/1.1728496\">Click here to continue reading at the Citizens Voice.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Citizens Voice It is rare to find one person to whom a sweeping societal change can be attributed. Business, health, education, the law, sports \u2026 all of these fields change over time. Many people contribute to the transitions and often the change is incremental. Joe Drach gets credit, or blame if one is so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24129,"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":[8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general","8":"category-players","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24128","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=24128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24132,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24128\/revisions\/24132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}