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GBBSA website is relaunched

by Joe Gray

Great Britain Baseball Scorers Association logo

Here at BaseballGB, we have been running a countdown to the relaunch of the Great Britain Baseball Scorers Association website. The day of the relaunch is now upon us. To view the site click here, but why not read an overview of what it contains beforehand?
 

Information for scorers

Like the previous version of the website, there is information for scorers, including downloadable scoresheets and details of how to register as a scorer in Britain.
 

Current domestic stats

Also like the previous version of the website, stats for the current season in the National Baseball League South will be published there, including leader lists. An improvement, though, is that the full stats spreadsheet for the season so far will now contain game-by-game breakdowns for batting and pitching.
 

Historical domestic stats

In the domestic history section you will find single-season records for Southern top-tier baseball, lists of season-by-season individual champions, sortable careers stats, and player biographies. While stats from before 2001 are incomplete, it is hoped that some of the gaps can be filled.
 

National team archives

The national team archives contain information on the performances of the Great Britain Seniors and Juniors, lists of North American collegiate and professional experience gained by players who have represented the national team, and a year-by-year history of the Great Britain Seniors. Still to come early next year are biographies for Great Britain players past and present. The Great Britain Baseball Scorers Association is extremely grateful to Baseball on Five presenter and ex-Great Britain player Josh Chetwynd for researching the history of the Great Britain national team so thoroughly and then handing it to the Scorers Association for publication.

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9 comments

Chico October 20, 2008 - 6:12 am

Joe: Good luck on the GBBSA!

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Matt Smith October 20, 2008 - 7:19 am

Hi Joe

The re-design is fantastic. There’s so much quality information there to look at (with much more on the way, I’m sure), all very neatly presented. Your hard work has really paid off.

As you already know, I love the idea of Project Cobb. I’m sure anyone who is thinking of doing some research, or has already started, will take one look at your site and think “this looks like something worth being part of”.

I’m delighted with the GBBSA/BGB collaboration and I’m more than happy to support your current projects and any future ones.

Well done mate!

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Joe Gray October 20, 2008 - 12:12 pm

Thanks guys.

I really enjoy writing about British baseball, but it can be annoying when you can’t put the current news into its proper context. What I’ve put together is obviously far from being complete, but I feel it will give us something to work with when writing about the domestic league and the national team. This is one of several reasons that the collaboration makes really good sense.

And it’s great to have the support of BaseballGB (in part because it prevents the countdown I ran looking purely like shameless self-publicity!).

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Joe Cooter October 21, 2008 - 1:52 am

The lay out of the sight looks good and it looks as if it will be a success. I can’t wait to see the list of players who’ve played here in the states.

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Eugene October 21, 2008 - 6:52 am

looking forward for more information about this. thanks for sharing. Eugene

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Joe Gray October 21, 2008 - 9:28 am

On the list at http://www.gbbsa.org.uk/seniors.html#pina you will find players who have played for the national team and hold a British passport (and are thus eligible for major international competitions).

The SABR Minor League Database was really useful for this as it contains not only Minor League experience but also independent play:
http://minors.sabrwebs.com/cgi-bin/index.php

There are more players who have played for Britain without a passport (in games where the passport rule does not apply) and who have played professionally in the States and in Canada.

In addition, there are a number of players born in Great Britain who have gone on to play in the States but who have not represented the national team. A list of British-born players who have made it to the Majors is provided in Josh Chetwynd’s latest book, “Baseball in Europe: A Country By Country History”. The most famous of these must be Bobby Thomson.

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Joe Cooter October 21, 2008 - 10:51 am

When I was a kid, I remember two players in particular who who I later found out were born in England. Danny Cox who was a reliever for the St. Louis Cardnails in the late eighties and Lance Parrish who was the starting catcher of the Detriot Tigers. This is in addition to Bobby Thompson, who was born in Scotland and was the starting first baseman on the 1951 Giants.

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Brian Holland October 21, 2008 - 11:00 am

Joe,

Just seen the new website. Only one word for it: BRILLIANT!

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Tim October 21, 2008 - 12:59 pm

Joe – I’m sure you will be glad to know that I just used the National Teams section of the GBBSA site to carry out some official research to answer a baseball-related media query. Couple of click and it was there.

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