{"id":42849,"date":"2024-02-22T13:59:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T21:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=42849"},"modified":"2024-02-22T13:59:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T21:59:55","slug":"throwback-thursday-fastpitch-bulletin-january-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=42849","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday &#8211; Fastpitch Bulletin &#8211; January 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This one from the way-way back machine, pre-internet days.  Before Fastpitchwest, there was Al&#8217;s Fastball; before Al&#8217;s Fastball there was (Bob Tomlinson&#8217;s) Fastpitch Chronicle; and before the Fastpitch Chronicle, there was the <strong>Fastpitch Bulletin, by Ray Anderson<\/strong> (with ace reporter Betty Stoudt).   Ran across this single (front) page while cleaning out some boxes, from over forty (40) years ago,  January 1983.   It&#8217;s a great slice of fastpitch history &#8211; mentioning two of the greatest players (pitchers) ever, <strong>Mark Smith<\/strong> and <strong>Kevin Herlihy<\/strong>.   And for good measure, mentions two leaders of the day, <strong>Bob Van Impe<\/strong> and <strong>Milt Stark<\/strong>.   Watch for updates to this note shortly.<\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Fastpitch_Bulletin_Jan_1983_page-1.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Fastpitch_Bulletin_Jan_1983_page-1<\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note This one from the way-way back machine, pre-internet days. Before Fastpitchwest, there was Al&#8217;s Fastball; before Al&#8217;s Fastball there was (Bob Tomlinson&#8217;s) Fastpitch Chronicle; and before the Fastpitch Chronicle, there was the Fastpitch Bulletin, by Ray Anderson (with ace reporter Betty Stoudt). Ran across this single (front) page while cleaning out some boxes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6487,"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":[7,28,8,22,19],"tags":[1433,1434],"class_list":{"0":"post-42849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fastpitchwest","8":"category-featured","9":"category-general","10":"category-people","11":"category-players","12":"tag-fastpitchbulletin","13":"tag-throwbackthursday","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42849","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=42849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42852,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42849\/revisions\/42852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}