{"id":10949,"date":"2011-06-03T21:49:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T20:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=10949"},"modified":"2011-06-14T17:59:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T16:59:22","slug":"brit-ball-digital-archive-33-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=10949","title":{"rendered":"Brit-Ball online collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10737\" title=\"Project COBB logo\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/logo.png\" alt=\"Project COBB logo\" width=\"166\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/logo.png 276w, https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/logo-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/>Between 1993 and 1998, the British Baseball Federation churned out 60 issues of an excellent newsletter known as\u00c2\u00a0<em>Brit-Ball<\/em>. The publication provided league standings, player stats, game-by-game results and highlights, news items, and plenty more.<\/p>\n<p>I have been busy setting up a webpage to host digitized versions of the issues held by Project COBB, which comprise all but number 14 (if you happen to have a copy of that one, please leave a comment below).<\/p>\n<p>So far, I have uploaded the last 20 issues, which were in an A5 format. You can access the online collection directly by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectcobb.org.uk\/brit-ball.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or you can go click through from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectcobb.org.uk\/materials.html#p\" target=\"_blank\">full list<\/a> of newsletters made available by Project COBB. The first 40 issues, all of which were A4, will be added in due course.<\/p>\n<p>The Project COBB collection of <em>Brit-Ball<\/em> was built up through donations from duplicates held by BaseballSoftball<em>UK<\/em> and the personal collections of Brad Thompson and Jeff Elijah. I note with pleasure that contact was made with the last of these after he left a comment on <em>BaseballGB<\/em> in response to a <a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=6476\" target=\"_blank\">post about another British publication<\/a>, <em>Baseball Mercury<\/em>. From 1992 to 2001,\u00c2\u00a0Jeff edited <em>International Baseball Rundown<\/em>, which started out as a newsletter and grew to become a magazine that covered baseball as a worldwide sport. Through his association with international baseball, Jeff amassed a collection of baseball publications from many countries, including Britain.<\/p>\n<p>So thanks must go to the generous donors, and also to the British Baseball Federation Board for granting permission for these to be published online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional comment: I forgot to say in the original post that I&#8217;ve run optical character recognition on the PDFs to facilitate text searching.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 1993 and 1998, the British Baseball Federation churned out 60 issues of an excellent newsletter known as\u00c2\u00a0Brit-Ball. The publication provided league standings, player stats, game-by-game results and highlights, news items, and plenty more. I have been busy setting up a webpage to host digitized versions of the issues held by Project COBB, which comprise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-cobb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10949"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11106,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949\/revisions\/11106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}