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Ten ways to help Project Cobb
June 7, 2010 – 9:00 pm | One Comment
Ten ways to help Project Cobb

A list of ten different ways to help the Project for the Chronicling of British Baseball

Gallery 1 for the 2010 British Baseball Photography Competition
June 7, 2010 – 7:14 pm | One Comment
Gallery 1 for the 2010 British Baseball Photography Competition

Entries are already coming in for the British Baseball Photography Competition in its debut year. A selection of the best photos so far have been posted in an online gallery, which can be accessed here.
The overall winner …

Cobbette: Detectives, fairies, and baseball
May 8, 2010 – 10:23 am | One Comment
Cobbette: Detectives, fairies, and baseball

A look at how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s interests extended beyond crime writing and little creatures at the bottom of the garden

Batch of more recent programmes added to the Project Cobb archives
April 9, 2010 – 4:50 pm | No Comment
Batch of more recent programmes added to the Project Cobb archives

A number of programmes and other artefacts from the early and middle parts of the 20th Century have been added to the Project Cobb archives in recent months. While digitizing these materials for public consumption is …

New collection on 1950s and 1960s baseball in the London area added to Project Cobb website
April 3, 2010 – 12:51 pm | 5 Comments
New collection on 1950s and 1960s baseball in the London area added to Project Cobb website

I recently received an email from a designer named Dean Whiting, whose father Barry Whiting and uncle Maurice Whiting played baseball for various teams in the London area in the 1950s and 1960s. Dean has …

Introducing the Cobbette
March 22, 2010 – 7:40 am | No Comment
Introducing the Cobbette

This is the first in a series of baseball “history snippets” with a link to Britain, from Project Cobb

Project Cobb makes important step forward with attainment of SABR Chartered Community status
February 2, 2010 – 7:01 am | 3 Comments
Project Cobb makes important step forward with attainment of SABR Chartered Community status

News of Project Cobb’s attainment of SABR Chartered Community status and details of what this means

Two of the four missing issues of Baseball Mercury uncovered in National Baseball Hall of Fame library
January 13, 2010 – 5:50 pm | 11 Comments
Two of the four missing issues of Baseball Mercury uncovered in National Baseball Hall of Fame library

The British baseball publication Baseball Mercury was edited by baseball historian William Morgan from 1972 until 1989. Fifty-one issues were produced in all, and the publication’s scope covered both domestic and international baseball, as well as …

The annual British Baseball Photography Competition is launched
January 11, 2010 – 7:00 am | 2 Comments
The annual British Baseball Photography Competition is launched

The British Baseball Photography Competition has been launched as a joint initiative of Project Cobb and BaseballSoftballUK

2009 GB national team history update completed
December 19, 2009 – 7:31 pm | No Comment
2009 GB national team history update completed

The 2009 update of the Great Britain national team history has just been completed, and what a historic year it was. While Great Britain had competed against a non-European country before (the United States, back …