Note: In this article, to show that the sport being referred to is a direct antecedent of modern American baseball, the term “baseball†is used throughout, except in quoted passages.…
One from the Past
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British baseballProject COBB
One from the Past: Selection of photos from 1976 national final uncovered
by Joe Grayby Joe GrayRhode Island native Jeff Archer has been a great friend of Project COBB since its inception and he recently sent through some photos from the 1976 British national final, in…
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British baseballProject COBB
The Croydon Pirates at the 2005 European Cupwinners Cup (Part 1)
by Joe Grayby Joe GrayIn 2013, baseball clubs from 25 European countries will take part in competitions sanctioned by the continent’s baseball federation. The highest-ranked European nation absent from this list is Great Britain…
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British baseballProject COBB
One from the Past: Classic pre-WWII finals in British Baseball
by Joe Grayby Joe GrayOn 28 March 2009 I published an article describing the six classic national finals of British baseball’s post-war era, where a classic is simplistically defined (for reasons justified in the original piece)…
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This year’s National Baseball Championship will represent the 100th anniversary of, well, nothing. Starting in 1912, British baseball experienced a 22-year period without an official national final. The title deciders that…
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Sports junkies are addicted to oddities, and a regular fix is offered by the abundance of individual incidents played out within North American organized baseball’s daily schedule, not to mention the global game.…
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British baseballProject COBB
One from the Present; One from the Past — A consolidated, semi-regular column
by Joe Grayby Joe GrayI can derive great joy from uncovering details of an important but long-forgotten British baseball clash in a newspaper library. The enjoyment has much to do with the respect I…