Formed in October 2008 with the dual aim of restoring British baseball’s past and preserving its future, Project Cobb (the Project for the Chronicling of British Baseball) is a collaboration that has quickly grown to oversee or play a part in numerous exciting initiatives, perhaps none more important than the British Baseball Hall of Fame. Project Cobb was recently brought under the umbrella of the highly prestigious Society for American Baseball Research, through its recognition as a Chartered Community (the fifth group to receive this status).

To help illustrate the wealth of ways that already exist to help the project, the following list contains ten examples of how you can get involved or lend a hand.

Serve as a link with non-internet users at your club

This is listed first as it is arguably the most valuable way of all in which you can provide help… The only means for a predominantly online collaboration of this nature to be truly effective is if contacts exist between internet users and non-internet users. If you can put Project Cobb in touch with someone with information to share but who is not an internet user, email the address in the top-right corner of the webpage accessed by clicking here. Perhaps a long-time member of your baseball club is sitting on a treasure trove of old materials. Start up your own research project

If you are interested in carrying out your own research project into an area of British baseball history that has a particular fascination for you but are not sure how to start or how you might disseminate your findings, Project Cobb can provide help with both aspects. To discuss an idea or request assistance, please do not hesitate to email the address in the top-right corner of the webpage accessed by clicking here. Check the attic for old programmes and other materials to digitize

Project Cobb has already made available dozens of old programmes and other baseball materials, such as newsletters, in a digitized format on the site. Should you have anything to add, Project Cobb would be very grateful to be able to add digitized versions to the online archives. If this is the case, please email the address in the top-right corner of the webpage accessed by clicking here. Register as a scorer or league statistician with the GBBSA

You can assist with the efforts to chronicle British baseball as it happens by either registering as a scorer with the Great Britain Baseball Scorers Association or becoming a league statistician to aid with the collation of statistics. In either case you will be contributing to the preservation of a very important aspect of our game for the future. Look for end-of-season statistics or old game reports containing feats

The Great Britain Baseball Scorers Association maintains an archive of individual champions across the years as well as feats that have been accomplished in top-tier play. If you have any information at all that could be used to expand the existing archive, please email the address in the top-right corner of the webpage accessed by clicking here. Submit photos to the British Baseball Photography Competition

The annual British Baseball Photography Competition will be accepting entries for the 2010 season until the end of September. Each photographer is invited to submit up to 20 photos over the course of the competition. The overall winner will receive £100 in photography vouchers.

Look for materials you have that might plug gaps on British Baseball Data

British Baseball Data is Mark Tobin’s unique effort to restore the historical record of league standings, championship rosters, and post-season results. If you can plug any gaps on the site – perhaps you have a missing end-of-season league table in an old league handbook – please contact Mark here. Share any stories you know behind the names of British baseball teams

An archive was recently established for Project Cobb to catalogue the stories behind the names of British baseball teams, both past and present. You can see the stories that have already been supplied by clicking here. If you are able to share a story for any other team, please email team.names@gmail.com.

Send details of British league players with North American pro experience

One of the pieces of Project Cobb’s ongoing research is an attempt to produce an archive of all players who have competed in the British baseball league at any point its history and also played professional baseball in North America (be it for a major league side, a minor league affiliate, or an independent team). If you can supply any details, please email the address in the top-right corner of the webpage accessed by clicking here. Suggest another potential area of focus for Project Cobb

If you have any thoughts on initiatives that would fall under the remit of Project Cobb, particularly if it is something you would be interested in providing assistance with, please get in touch. To discuss an idea, please email the address in the top-right corner of the webpage accessed by clicking here.