{"id":27100,"date":"2015-06-09T09:26:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T16:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=27100"},"modified":"2015-06-09T09:59:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T16:59:14","slug":"mens-fastball-world-tournament-coming-to-grand-rapids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=27100","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Fastball World Tournament coming to Grand Rapids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_27101\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27101\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/grand_rapids_mi_300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/grand_rapids_mi_300.jpg\" alt=\"map courtesy townmaps.usa\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27101\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">map courtesy townmaps.usa<\/figcaption><\/figure><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/sports\/grand-rapids\/index.ssf\/2015\/06\/mens_fastball_world_tournament.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>From MLive.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GRAND RAPIDS, MI &#8211; The 2017 ISC Men&#8217;s Fastball World Tournament will be held at the Art Van Sports Complex in Plainfield Township.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament, through the International Softball Congress, will be held Aug. 11-20, 2017.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"pullquote\">&#8220;We are very excited about bringing the ISC World Tournament to a new site and to a purpose-built softball complex,&#8221; said ISC Executive Director Larry Fisher, &#8220;we are very confident that the fans and the teams will agree that the Art Van Sports Complex is a world-class facility.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Grand Rapids will be the third city in Michigan to host the ISC World Tournament, following Saginaw in 1981 and Midland in 2010 and 2012.<\/p>\n<p>This event, taking place over a week and a half, is expected to have estimated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/sports\/grand-rapids\/index.ssf\/2015\/06\/mens_fastball_world_tournament.html\" target=\"_blank\">economic impact of $1.7 million. Click here to read the complete story at MLive.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From MLive.com GRAND RAPIDS, MI &#8211; The 2017 ISC Men&#8217;s Fastball World Tournament will be held at the Art Van Sports Complex in Plainfield Township. The tournament, through the International Softball Congress, will be held Aug. 11-20, 2017. &#8220;We are very excited about bringing the ISC World Tournament to a new site and to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27102,"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],"tags":[83,243],"class_list":{"0":"post-27100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-isc","8":"tag-isc","9":"tag-isc2017","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27100","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=27100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27104,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27100\/revisions\/27104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}