{"id":5620,"date":"2009-03-02T07:47:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T02:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=5620"},"modified":"2009-03-01T22:37:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T03:37:35","slug":"mesquite-old-pros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2009\/03\/02\/mesquite-old-pros\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesquite Old Pros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/download\/101\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mesquite Old Pros with Deaf Player Paul Laird\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/download\/100\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong>Mesquite Old Pros<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, March 1, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Softball<\/p>\n<p>Who they are: Players 60 and older who compete in a seniors Class C league.<\/p>\n<p>What happened: The Old Pros Beat the DeSoto Dukes, 5-4, in the championship game to win the DFW Class C Seniors Softball Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know? The oldest &quot;Old Pro&quot; is 79.<\/p>\n<p><em>Paul Laird is the only deaf player in a 61 and over slowpitch Men&#8217;s softball League. (Women may play if they are over 40) There are 12 teams total in this league. The Old Pros team (pictured) won the Championship.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If any Men over 61 are interested in playing fee fee to contact Paul Laird at texpaul44@aol.com<\/p>\n<p>Source: (May required free registration to view)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/spt\/misc\/goodsports\/stories\/030109dnspogoodsports.3fbbe6f.html\">http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/spt\/misc\/goodsports\/stories\/030109dnspogoodsports.3fbbe6f.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download web PDF version:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/download\/99\/\">http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/download\/99\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download picture: (JPG)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/download\/101\/\">http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/download\/101\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mesquite Old Pros Sunday, March 1, 2009 Softball Who they are: Players 60 and older who compete in a seniors Class C league. What happened: The Old Pros Beat the DeSoto Dukes, 5-4, in the championship game to win the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2009\/03\/02\/mesquite-old-pros\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deaf-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p752R-1sE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9480,"url":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2010\/02\/28\/2010-swsad-regional-tournament-2010-gulfport-ms\/","url_meta":{"origin":5620,"position":0},"title":"2010 SWSAD Regional Tournament 2010 &#8211; Gulfport, MS","author":"Grant Laird Jr","date":"February 28, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"2010 SWSAD Regional Tournament June 17-19, 2010 - Gulfport, MS From Desk of SWSAD Commissioner Howdy! 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