“The Bournemouth Cubs were founded in the late 1940s by Vic Beach, and the name can be explained by the fact that Vic wrote to the Chicago Cubs, asking if they could help with any equipment. Their response was generous, and they also adopted the team as their British contact. The team did not actually play in Bournemouth, though, since in those days that south-coast town had a strict bylaw: no Sunday sport on council-owned pitches. Home games could only be arranged on a Sunday, but the team still managed to stay by the coast, playing over the council boundary in Poole. Opponents included the Hornsey Red Sox, the Wokingham Monarchs, and Chipping Norton, and teams enjoyed playing the Cubs on the road as it allowed them to bring friends and family for a day out at the seaside.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Another story that James submitted on behalf of Peter relates to the photo below.<\/p>\n
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At first I thought that the haziness at the top was some kind of fading, or even dodgy developing, but according to Peter it is in fact smoke from bonfires that had been lit by the local residents, who were trying to stop baseball game from being played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A big thank you must go to James Norman and (indirectly) Peter Beach for submitting a team-name story and a bunch of photos relating to the Bournemouth Cubs, a club that Peter’s father Vic founded and for which Peter played shortstop. A photo of the team is below (Vic is in the centre of the […]<\/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":[423],"class_list":["post-11258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-cobb","tag-bournemouth-cubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11258","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=11258"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11266,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11258\/revisions\/11266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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