{"id":29404,"date":"2016-03-22T10:31:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T17:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=29404"},"modified":"2016-03-22T10:31:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T17:31:30","slug":"topeka-ks-fastpitch-players-look-to-team-up-again-at-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=29404","title":{"rendered":"Topeka KS Fastpitch players look to team up again at reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fast-pitch softball players look to team up again at reunion<br \/>\nFormer teammates to reunite April 9<\/strong><br \/>\nFrom the Topeka Capital Journal\/<a href=\"http:\/\/cjonline.com\/sports\/2016-03-21\/around-town-fast-pitch-softball-players-look-team-again-reunion\" target=\"_blank\">cjonline.com<\/a><br \/>\n<em>By JC Reeves<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the 1960s and 70s men\u2019s fast-pitch softball was an immensely popular sport. Specifically in Topeka.<\/p>\n<p>Now, roughly 50 years later, a group of former players and their wives, headed by Gloria Hupp \u2014 the widow of former player and manager Dee Hupp \u2014 hope to reunite with many former \u201cfamily members\u201d at noon Saturday, April 9 at the Goodyear Shelter House on 25th and Indianola.<\/p>\n<p>Spectators, including the players\u2019 wives and children, would head to the ballpark in droves to watch the games. Fans would spend hours on hot summer days observing intently as players for teams such as Coffee Cup, Doug Ruedlinger Insurance and Plantation Steak House did battle on the diamond.<\/p>\n<p>The Topeka Capital-Journal would send reporters and photographers to games to provide recaps for those who were unable to attend or just wanted to refresh their memory.<\/p>\n<p>The men playing the game would leave it all out on the field, often playing multiple games per day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a lot of times we played six games in one day,\u201d Dan Workman, who played for multiple teams under Dee Hupp, said. \u201cAnd the teams were even. So if you got beat, well, it was going to happen.\u201d  \u201cEven the lowest of teams could beat the best of teams on a given day,\u201d Kay Dick added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Spectators, including the players\u2019 wives and children, would head to the ballpark in droves to watch the games. Fans would spend hours on hot summer days observing intently as players for teams such as Coffee Cup, Doug Ruedlinger Insurance and Plantation Steak House did battle on the diamond.  The Topeka Capital-Journal would send reporters and photographers to games to provide recaps for those who were unable to attend or just wanted to refresh their memory.  The men playing the game would leave it all out on the field, often playing multiple games per day.  \u201cThere was a lot of times we played six games in one day,\u201d Dan Workman, who played for multiple teams under Dee Hupp, said. \u201cAnd the teams were even. So if you got beat, well, it was going to happen.\u201d  \u201cEven the lowest of teams could beat the best of teams on a given day,\u201d Kay Dick added.\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to continue reading.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast-pitch softball players look to team up again at reunion Former teammates to reunite April 9 From the Topeka Capital Journal\/cjonline.com By JC Reeves In the 1960s and 70s men\u2019s fast-pitch softball was an immensely popular sport. Specifically in Topeka. Now, roughly 50 years later, a group of former players and their wives, headed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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],"tags":[479],"class_list":{"0":"post-29404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"tag-topekafastpitch","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29404","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=29404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29405,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29404\/revisions\/29405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}