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GBBSA website one year on
March 1, 2009 – 12:01 am | No Comment

It will be a year ago next week that I launched the Great Britain Baseball Scorers Association website. Initially, my plans were to have a place to keep the stats that the GBBSA scorers were recording each week in …

GB national team player biographies published
January 30, 2009 – 9:52 pm | One Comment

Biographies for Great Britain Seniors players, past and present, can now be found here. The large majority of the research was carried out by Josh Chetwynd, and I am very grateful to him for supplying …

Cartoons by Rex Phillips added to Project Cobb site
January 3, 2009 – 8:56 pm | 12 Comments

During the independent breakaway league of 1992-1994, a fanzine titled Linedrive was edited by London Warriors supporter Phil Ross, with contributions from Rex Phillips (including cartoons offering British baseball humour). A selection of the cartoons …

Early Christmas presents for Project Cobb
December 15, 2008 – 10:34 pm | 3 Comments

The past week has seen a couple of developments for Project Cobb (the Project for the Chronicling of British Baseball).
Back on Thursday, I met up with John Thomas, who was starting catcher for Great Britain …

Baseball Mercury web archive launched
November 23, 2008 – 7:00 pm | One Comment

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 covers both domestic and international baseball, as well …

5:45 to Folkestone: Longest games and World War I ball
October 24, 2008 – 8:48 pm | 4 Comments
5:45 to Folkestone: Longest games and World War I ball

It’s less than a week since the launch of Project Cobb, and already the lists of collaborators and their research projects have begun to grow. This growth has resulted from investigation of several existing leads, as well as an email …

Project Cobb gets underway
October 20, 2008 – 12:01 am | No Comment
Project Cobb gets underway

The just-launched Project Cobb (or the Project for the Chronicling of British Baseball) encourages the recording of baseball in Britain as it happens as well as the exploration and publishing of its history. To this end, Project Cobb publishes a …