{"id":32474,"date":"2018-08-07T11:48:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T18:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=32474"},"modified":"2018-08-08T11:54:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T18:54:01","slug":"passing-of-isc-hall-of-famer-joe-avila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=32474","title":{"rendered":"Passing of ISC Hall of Famer Joe\u00a0Avila"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=32461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Passing of ISC Hall of Famer Joe\u00a0Avila<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n<p>We regret to report the passing of ISC Hall of Famer Joe\u00a0Avila, who died in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/traffic\/family-friends-remember-those-killed-in-madera-county-crash\/3852912\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">car accident last week<\/a>.\u00a0 Joe was inducted into the ISC Hall of Fame in 2010 at Midland Michigan, where I had the honor of delivering his introduction at the Hall of Fame Breakfast.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ci4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/c19yFVJKA3JuRewMIaAU2DUdJl-hoim9juLvOQdSerZtAJFafyGpTu8YWFDSn6drzDIRMutB7bCjj0jdVeV3xj1VoThZaMB1c0vftFJhqWlmGyMoLOLh9wlts2mKPiYoU3c9AmR3WXRA5_86FO3TkxycEOE=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Joe-Avila.jpg?fit=300%2C201\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Joe\u00a0Avila\u00a0with his ISC Hall of Fame plaque, presented by Charlie Smith (at left)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Joe&#8217;s ISC Hall of Fame bio:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Joe\u00a0Avila, Hanford, CA \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>From his debut in 1964 with the Armona CA Merchants,\u00a0Joe\u00a0Avila\u00a0was a skilled player and great ambassador for softball. As a shortstop possessing lightning speed, great hitting and fielding and an intensive competitive desire,\u00a0Joe\u00a0was among the best in the business. In ten ISC State tournaments, he was selected to the All-Tournament team each year. At the ISC tournaments in Kimberly, WI (1972) and Sun City, AZ (1974)\u00a0Joe\u00a0was named to the ISC All-World team as a member of the Clovis, CA Cowboys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Celebration of Life will be held at the Hanford California Fairgrounds at\u00a06pm\u00a0this evening, August 6, 2018, for those in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passing of ISC Hall of Famer Joe\u00a0Avila We regret to report the passing of ISC Hall of Famer Joe\u00a0Avila, who died in a\u00a0car accident last week.\u00a0 Joe was inducted into the ISC Hall of Fame in 2010 at Midland Michigan, where I had the honor of delivering his introduction at the Hall of Fame Breakfast.\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32476,"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":[28,10,22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-isc","9":"category-people","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32474","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=32474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32477,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32474\/revisions\/32477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}