{"id":1382,"date":"2008-11-23T19:00:50","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T18:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2009-10-28T10:43:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T10:43:26","slug":"baseball-mercury-web-archive-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1382","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Mercury web archive launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"justify;\">The British baseball publication <em>Baseball Mercury<\/em> was edited by baseball historian William Morgan from 1972 until 1989. Fifty-one issues were produced in all, and the publication&#8217;s scope covers both domestic and international baseball, as well as softball.<\/p>\n<p style=\"justify;\">Its coverage includes articles on baseball in Britian going back to the 19th Century (it is William Morgan&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0records\u00c2\u00a0of National Champions that today&#8217;s official list is based on), and there are few more valuable resources for people carrying out research into the history of the game in Britain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"justify;\">One project that has drawn extensively on the <em>Baseball Mercury<\/em> is the Great Britain National Team year-by-year history, available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbbsa.org.uk\/seniors.html#ybyh\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"justify;\">William Morgan has kindly agreed to let Project Cobb make <em>Baseball Mercury<\/em> freely available on the internet. The archive can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbbsa.org.uk\/mercury.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. There are a handful of issues missing from the archive, but every effort will be made to obtain these and make them available as well.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British baseball publication Baseball Mercury was edited by baseball historian William Morgan from 1972 until 1989. Fifty-one issues were produced in all, and the publication&#8217;s scope covers both domestic and international baseball, as well as softball. Its coverage includes articles on baseball in Britian going back to the 19th Century (it is William Morgan&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0records\u00c2\u00a0of [&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":[558],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-cobb","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","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=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5930,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/5930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}