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1990s added to Project Cobb’s archive of national champions of British baseball

Cobb (128x128)At the end of 2010, Project Cobb signed off a productive year of baseball history research with the launch of an archive of national champions of British baseball. This is being jointly collated by Josh Chetwynd, Mark Tobin, and me (Mark’s British Baseball Data website already holds a fair chunk of the information presented).

On launch, the archive held information on just the 21st Century. Now, we’re starting to venture back into the 20th Century, with the addition of the 1990s to the archive. Many gaps are already apparent, but I still think it is a very worthy venture. Of course, if you can fill any of the gaps or know someone else who might be able to, then please leave a comment.

Launching a new archive: National champions of British baseball

Cobb (128x128)It’s been a busy week on the Project Cobb website. First, two old British baseball publications were newly added to the historical materials section, those being volume 1 issue 2 of Baseball, from June 1939, and volume 2 no 1-3 of News Sheet, from 1948.

Second, the collection of programmes and other artefacts was expanded with many new additions - so much so, in fact, that what was previously one list is now three. To make the site more user-friendly, there is now a trio of tables listing the miscellaneous digitized holdings (i.e. those not in the Anthony Taylor collection or another archive held on the site). One table is for 1900-1949, another is for 1950-1969, and the third is for 1970-1999.

Third, and perhaps most excitingly of all (hence its mention in the title of this article), is the launch of a new Project Cobb archive, to collect and preserve details on the championship-winning teams through the history of British baseball, going all the way back to 1890.

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