{"id":3644,"date":"2009-08-11T22:42:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T21:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=3644"},"modified":"2013-02-09T22:29:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T22:29:21","slug":"full-article-albert-king-a-1930s-speedway-fan-turned-baseball-follower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=3644","title":{"rendered":"Full article: Albert King &#8211; A 1930s speedway fan turned baseball follower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5838\" title=\"articles\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/articles.gif\" alt=\"articles\" width=\"116\" height=\"150\" \/>Guest author<\/strong><br \/>\nJosh Chetwynd<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary<br \/>\n<\/strong>This article tells the story of how a speedway fan named Albert King came to follow the West Ham Hammers in the London Major Baseball League of the 1930s. The article is based on correspondence that King had with Chetwynd in 2006, around the time that\u00c2\u00a0Chetwynd&#8217;s book\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcfarlandpub.com\/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-2594-5\" target=\"_blank\"><em>British Baseball and the West Ham Club<\/em><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0was being\u00c2\u00a0published by McFarland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Access the PDF<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectcobb.org.uk\/articles\/Albert_King.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span><strong>Click here<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Please leave comments on the article below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest author Josh Chetwynd Summary This article tells the story of how a speedway fan named Albert King came to follow the West Ham Hammers in the London Major Baseball League of the 1930s. The article is based on correspondence that King had with Chetwynd in 2006, around the time that\u00c2\u00a0Chetwynd&#8217;s book\u00c2\u00a0British Baseball and the [&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":[91,556,558],"class_list":["post-3644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-cobb","tag-articles","tag-british-baseball","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644","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=3644"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15382,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions\/15382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}