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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…