Yesterday, the official announcement was made on the BBF website that the British Baseball Hall of Fame is finally off the ground. The idea has been proposed numerous times in…
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Full article: An All-Star team of Major Leaguers who have played in Great Britain
by Joe Grayby Joe GrayGuest author Josh Chetwynd Summary This article presents an All-Star team of Major League players who, at some point, played baseball on British soil. Access the PDF Click here Please…
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As part of my research for the article published just below on the London Twilight Baseball League, I have been enjoying a long email correspondence with Jeff Archer, the league’s…
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Summary In this article I look at the London Twilight Baseball League of 1976, a project led by Jeff Archer. While the league was short-lived, its innovative nature gives it historical…
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MLB.com has produced a new documentary exploring baseball’s roots that will be of particular interest to British fans. Base Ball Discovered provides: “an exploration into the many generational theories about…
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Just a quick bit of news on Project Cobb. The domain name projectcobb.org.uk has now been registered. It’s been set up as a mirror of the GBBSA website, so going…
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The sad news announced yesterday that Dominic DiMaggio had passed away compelled me to fetch my copy of David Halberstam’s The Teammates from the shelf. It’s a touching, wonderful book…
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Back in March, I published an article titled Classic post-war finals in British baseball. In researching the article I received help from Norman Wells, a long-time Liverpool Trojan. Yesterday I…
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This is the first instalment of a new feature for BaseballGB. On the first Tuesday of every month, I will be pointing readers in the direction of a web resource…
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Summary In this article I look back at some of the classic baseball national finals played in Britain since the end of World War II. I define a classic final…