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British Baseball Beat: London Mets remain the team to beat

Mets beat Mustangs to go 8-0

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British Baseball Beat: Mets and Mustangs meet on Sunday

The number of unbeaten teams comes down to three

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British Baseball Beat: London Mets move up

Plus a triple play and more wins for Hull

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British Baseball Beat: Lions tame Trojans

Plus London Mets face Herts Falcons this Sunday in the NBL

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British Baseball Beat: Herts take top spot

Last Sunday was the first day of the 2013 British baseball season in which teams from all divisions took to the field. It was a day on which Peralta pitched a second no-no and a Hull legend came home

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Call for Papers: This Diamond Isle

A Call for Papers has just been published for This Diamond Isle, a new biannual journal of British baseball (to be published online only as the periodical for the Project COBB Chartered Community of the Society for American Baseball Research). You can see the Call for Papers by clicking here. Pieces may focus on anything [...]

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British Baseball Beat: Getting going

Double-header sweeps, postponements and a no-hitter

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Celebrating individual successes on poor or mediocre teams in British baseball’s top tier

In baseball, as in other team games, stronger sides generally comprise stronger players, and weaker sides weaker players. All but the very strongest nines ever assembled, though, have had at least one sub-par member, and many poorly performing ensembles have boasted individual stars. This article is about celebrating the latter.

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British Baseball Beat: NBL openers

Blazers, Falcons and Mets start with 2-0 sweeps

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Haarlem Baseball Week, 1961: an early British foray onto the Continent

Recently, I wrote about the history of British clubs in European competitions sanctioned by the continent’s baseball confederation. Of course, there are many other tournaments held in Europe that bring together teams from different countries, including Britain. For instance, several British teams have forged links with clubs on the Continent, particularly in The Netherlands, and made [...]

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