{"id":458,"date":"2008-06-10T18:38:21","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T17:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=458"},"modified":"2008-06-10T18:38:21","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T17:38:21","slug":"british-baseball-history-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"British Baseball history news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BaseballSoftballUK website has published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballsoftballuk.com\/gen_insert.php?from_level3=Articles&amp;db_story=2494&amp;this_page=bsuknews&amp;back=Current++News\" target=\"_blank\">a report<\/a> about the UK chapter of SABR&#8217;s AGM, which was held on Saturday.&#160; The event included presentations on two exciting developments relating to the history of baseball in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>The first is a project that has been discussed on Five in recent weeks.&#160; The Marylebone Cricket club are in the early stages of planning an exhibition on the links between cricket and baseball.&#160; The exhibition will initially be housed at Lords before visiting Australia, and the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and it sounds like it will be well worth visiting.&#160; Establishing links between the two sports would be a good way of selling baseball to cricket fans, many of whom are skeptical about its appeal.&#160; The exhibition isn&#8217;t scheduled to open until March 2010, but it is worth keeping an eye on any developments in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p>The second project should be with us in a much shorter space of time.&#160; The SABR AGM attendees were treated to a premiere of an hour-long documentary about the roots of baseball that has been made by MLB.com.&#160; Entitled &#8216;Baseball Discovered&#8217;, the documentary builds on work by SABR UK members to chart the history of the sport, looking back at other bat and ball games such as Stoolball and Ball-and-Trap.&#160; BSUK states that the documentary will be available on MLB.com and ITunes soon, so keep an eye out for it.&#160;&#160;&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BaseballSoftballUK website has published a report about the UK chapter of SABR&#8217;s AGM, which was held on Saturday.&#160; The event included presentations on two exciting developments relating to the history of baseball in Britain. The first is a project that has been discussed on Five in recent weeks.&#160; The Marylebone Cricket club are in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-baseball-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}