{"id":40899,"date":"2022-08-22T16:12:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T23:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=40899"},"modified":"2022-08-22T17:05:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T00:05:30","slug":"got-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=40899","title":{"rendered":"Got Balls?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Organization Seeking donation of 100+ used softballs for Police Appreciation Day<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Softball-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40902\" width=\"426\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Softball-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Softball-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Softball-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Softball-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>FastpitchWest is assisting a fellow fastballer in collecting used softballs for an organization&#8217;s 27th Annual Police Officer Appreciation Day, to be held on <strong>October 1, 2022<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They wrap the balls in aluminum foil,  then shoot them out of a couple cannons aiming at a target.   <strong>They use about 150-200 softballs a year<\/strong> <strong>for the event.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fellow that is working to collect the balls played fastpitch at the National level in the 1980&#8217;s, playing his last game at the 2008 ISC Legends tournament.   He remains a fan of the game, traveling to this year&#8217;s tournament from Indiana, attending the ISC and Legends finals.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Can you help ? <\/strong> If you have some used balls to donate, email me, jim [at] fastpitchwest.com and I&#8217;ll send you the mailing address for them.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good chance to donate those old balls to a worthy cause and start next season with new ones !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organization Seeking donation of 100+ used softballs for Police Appreciation Day FastpitchWest is assisting a fellow fastballer in collecting used softballs for an organization&#8217;s 27th Annual Police Officer Appreciation Day, to be held on October 1, 2022. They wrap the balls in aluminum foil, then shoot them out of a couple cannons aiming at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40902,"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":[28,8],"tags":[1364,1365],"class_list":{"0":"post-40899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-general","9":"tag-donate","10":"tag-fastpitch","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40899","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=40899"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40911,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40899\/revisions\/40911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}