{"id":29177,"date":"2015-11-17T13:16:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T21:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=29177"},"modified":"2015-11-23T19:22:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T03:22:17","slug":"7th-annual-breederrupp-fastball-tournament-long-beach-ca-dec-5-6-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=29177","title":{"rendered":"6th Annual Breeder\/Rupp Fastball Tournament &#8211; Long Beach CA &#8211; Dec 5-6, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/LB_300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/LB_300.jpg\" alt=\"LB_300\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29178\" \/><\/a><em>Information courtesy of Larry Silfen and Paul Rubin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The 7th Annual annual Breeder\/Rupp fastball tourney is ready to go on December 5-6 at El Dorado Park in Long Beach. This year&#8217;s event will have a special feel as Maccabi Canada (with ISC 1st-team All-World hurler Devon McCullough) will be one of the eight teams paying tribute to the late Dave &#8220;Breeder&#8221; Blackburn and his pal Ronnie Rupp.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the Maccabi Canada team is from the Toronto area, and many of their players were friendly competitors against Blackburn for years (he competed against Canada from 1985-2009). In return, the Maccabi USA team is hoping to play in a tourney in Ontario (Canada, not California!) next summer.<\/p>\n<p>J&amp;B Painting with the USA&#8217;s number one Tony Mancha and Canadian-born great Rob Schweyer on the hill will be in Long Beach, and have won Breeder\/Rupp three times. The Pala Braves with Arizona&#8217;s Sonny Perkins, A-1 Rockies, Stockton Buzzards, ?Balboa Fastpitch, So-Cal Bandits and Maccabi USA round out the field.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good-vibes off-season event that always is a good time for all. Breeder&#8217;s great spirit hovers over the ballfield, and Ronnie Rupp will be there in the flesh&#8211;maybe even spinning up some of his patented change-ups.<\/p>\n<p>And, remember this at all times: We don&#8217;t call it softball much anymore. That&#8217;s because the ball ain&#8217;t soft&#8211;and the game is hard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note<\/strong>: A prior version of this story listed the tournament as the &#8220;7th Annual&#8221;.  It&#8217;s actually the 6th.  The tournament was started in December 2010, by friends of Dave Blackburn and Ronnie Rupp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information courtesy of Larry Silfen and Paul Rubin The 7th Annual annual Breeder\/Rupp fastball tourney is ready to go on December 5-6 at El Dorado Park in Long Beach. This year&#8217;s event will have a special feel as Maccabi Canada (with ISC 1st-team All-World hurler Devon McCullough) will be one of the eight teams paying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29179,"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":[28,20,23],"tags":[439,441,440,442],"class_list":{"0":"post-29177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-so-cal","9":"category-tournaments","10":"tag-breederrupp","11":"tag-daveblackburn","12":"tag-longbeachfastball","13":"tag-ronnierupp","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29177","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=29177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29182,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29177\/revisions\/29182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}