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Summary A look at the best players, teams, grounds, and more from the first decade of the National Baseball League. Access the PDF Click here Please leave comments on the…

Guest author Josh Chetwynd Summary This article tells the story of how a speedway fan named Albert King came to follow the West Ham Hammers in the London Major Baseball…

Guest 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…

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…

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…

The 2009 British baseball season gets underway tomorrow.  Forty-five teams from across the country will begin their league campaigns all hoping to be a part of the National Baseball Championships at the end…

Summary In this article I present a method for comparing the quality of baseball across different leagues or different seasons, based on four factors that contribute to the quality of…

Summary In this article I produce a formula that summarizes various factors that I feel represent the “health” of a league: forfeit frequency, blowout frequency, and typical run difference. I then…

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…

Summary In this article I use the concept of dominance to provide an answer to the question of what the best season by a pitcher in British top-tier baseball is this…