{"id":32035,"date":"2018-02-19T11:34:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T19:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=32035"},"modified":"2018-02-19T13:45:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T21:45:41","slug":"passing-of-jamie-boyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=32035","title":{"rendered":"Passing of Jamie Boyd"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_32036\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32036\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/top\/?q=isc%20canada%20east\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32036 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Jamie_Boyd_ISC_2011_4210-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Jamie_Boyd_ISC_2011_4210-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Jamie_Boyd_ISC_2011_4210-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Jamie_Boyd_ISC_2011_4210-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamie Boyd (Maddy&#8217;s Photo, click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/top\/?q=isc%20canada%20east\">From ISC Canada East:<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;We are extremely saddened to hear of the sudden passing of Jamie Boyd, formerly with the Shakespeare Falcons. Jamie was the 2010 Kevin Herlihy ISC Newcomer of the Year and was named to the ISC All-World team that year in Midland. He was also named to several ISC II All-Tournament teams with Tavistock Merchants and Bridgeport Braves. More recently, Jamie was coaching his son in the Tavistock Athletics minor ball program. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Boyd family, as well as to his close friends in the Falcons family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/strong> We remember Jamie our days covering the ISC II Tournament of Champions, when Jamie was a standout for teams like the Bridgeport Braves, Tavistock Merchants and the Shakespeare Falcons.\u00a0 A pure hitter with power, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=4575\">he earned honors at the 2010 ISC World Tournament<\/a>, the\u00a0Kevin Herlihy Memorial Newcomer of the Year award winning, and top RBI man in the tournament.\u00a0 Beloved by his teammates, and respected by opposing players, you would often find him with both after a game, talking about the game and trading friendly jibes.\u00a0 Always that broad, affable smile.\u00a0 If you were nearby, he would pull you into the conversation.\u00a0 Jamie loved the game and the game loved him back.\u00a0 RIP, Jamie Boyd.<\/p>\n<p>Some notes of his\u00a0 play in the game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?s=&quot;jamie+boyd&quot;\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 (click next page links at the bottom of the pages)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32037\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32037\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Jamie_Boyd_ISC_2011_4187.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-32037\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Jamie_Boyd_ISC_2011_4187-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Jamie_Boyd_ISC_2011_4187-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Jamie_Boyd_ISC_2011_4187-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Jamie_Boyd_ISC_2011_4187-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32037\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamie Boyd (Maddy&#8217;s Photo, click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ISC Canada East: &#8220;We are extremely saddened to hear of the sudden passing of Jamie Boyd, formerly with the Shakespeare Falcons. Jamie was the 2010 Kevin Herlihy ISC Newcomer of the Year and was named to the ISC All-World team that year in Midland. He was also named to several ISC II All-Tournament teams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32036,"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":[5,28,60,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"category-featured","9":"category-inmemoriam","10":"category-players","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32035","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=32035"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32043,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32035\/revisions\/32043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}