{"id":2706,"date":"2009-04-30T19:43:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T18:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=2706"},"modified":"2009-10-28T10:38:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T10:38:53","slug":"more-on-the-classic-national-final-of-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=2706","title":{"rendered":"More on the classic national final of 1969"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5802\" title=\"Cobb (128x128)\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/Cobb-128x128.gif\" alt=\"Cobb (128x128)\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/>Back in March, I published an article titled <a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=2301\" target=\"_blank\">Classic post-war finals in British baseball<\/a>. In researching the article I received help from Norman Wells, a long-time Liverpool Trojan. Yesterday I had the pleasure of receiving a letter from the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.liverpooltrojansbaseball.co.uk\/Norms_page.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Old Man of Baseball<\/a>&#8220;, within which he expanded on the 1969 final between the Watford Sun-Rockets and his Liverpool team.<\/p>\n<p>Included with\u00c2\u00a0the letter was a team photo of the Trojans from the game, which I have scanned in. Norman is on the far left of the back row. Three men to Wells&#8217;s right is Ken Williams, who pitched the game. Art Bolton, the winning pitcher for the Trojans in the 1976 classic final, is five from the left in the middle row.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gbbsa.org.uk\/images\/trojans_of_1969.jpg\" alt=\"The Liverpool Trojans at the 1969 national final\" width=\"505\" height=\"303\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in March, I published an article titled Classic post-war finals in British baseball. In researching the article I received help from Norman Wells, a long-time Liverpool Trojan. Yesterday I had the pleasure of receiving a letter from the &#8220;Old Man of Baseball&#8220;, within which he expanded on the 1969 final between the Watford Sun-Rockets [&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":[556,558],"class_list":["post-2706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-cobb","tag-british-baseball","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706","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=2706"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5925,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions\/5925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}