{"id":9122,"date":"2010-03-19T10:33:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T17:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=9122"},"modified":"2011-05-16T13:13:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T20:13:30","slug":"mark-berman-retires-as-gb-mens-fastpitch-manager-appointed-manager-emeritus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=9122","title":{"rendered":"Mark Berman retires as Great Britain Men&#8217;s Fastpitch Manager, appointed &#8220;Manager Emeritus&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9123\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9123\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/uk-fastpitch.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/uk-fastpitch.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"uk fastpitch\" width=\"190\" height=\"88\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9123\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click logo for original news story.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballsoftballuk.com\/gen_insert.php?from_level3=Articles&#038;db_story=1126&#038;this_page=teamsnews&#038;back=Current%20%20News\">www.baseballsoftballuk.com<\/a><br \/>\nby Bob Fromer<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe BSF have announced that Mark Berman has retired as the Manager of the Great Britain Men\u2019s Fastpitch Team. In recognition of his services to the Team and to British and international softball, he has been awarded the title \u201cManager Emeritus\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mark managed and played for British National Teams, including the GB Men\u2019s Team, for 10 years. He founded the GB Men\u2019s National Fastpitch Team which, in 152 games, finished with a 97-55-2 record (.638). The Team\u2019s best season was 2003 when it went 19-4-1 and outscored its opponents by 191 to 45 runs. LA Fitness, the Team\u2019s fitness sponsor for the Worlds, called the GB Team \u201cone of the country\u2019s leading international sporting sides\u201d and, on the back of its accomplishments, \u201cone of the great success stories of the sporting world\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>The GB Men garnered two top three finishes in European Championship play, qualified for the 2004 ISF World Championships in Christchurch, NZ (the only British softball or baseball team ever to qualify as of right for a world championship) and, in the Worlds, earned their World ranking of 9th place. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballsoftballuk.com\/gen_insert.php?from_level3=Articles&#038;db_story=1126&#038;this_page=teamsnews&#038;back=Current%20%20News\">Click here or logo for more at original news story.<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: www.baseballsoftballuk.com by Bob Fromer The BSF have announced that Mark Berman has retired as the Manager of the Great Britain Men\u2019s Fastpitch Team. In recognition of his services to the Team and to British and international softball, he has been awarded the title \u201cManager Emeritus\u201d. Mark managed and played for British National Teams, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9124,"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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9122","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=9122"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10726,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9122\/revisions\/10726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}