{"id":6476,"date":"2010-01-13T17:50:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T17:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=6476"},"modified":"2010-01-13T17:52:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T17:52:20","slug":"two-of-the-four-missing-issues-of-baseball-mercury-uncovered-in-national-baseball-hall-of-fame-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=6476","title":{"rendered":"Two of the four missing issues of Baseball Mercury uncovered in National Baseball Hall of Fame library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"bm\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/bm.jpg\" alt=\"bm\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/>The British baseball publication\u00c2\u00a0<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 covered both domestic and international baseball, as well as softball.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00c2\u00a0<em>Baseball Mercury<\/em> web archive was launched by Project Cobb, with the kind permission of William, in November 2008 &#8211; as\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1382\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> on\u00c2\u00a0<em>BaseballGB<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0At that time, nine of the 51 issues were missing.\u00c2\u00a0Of those nine missing issues, William managed to uncover copies of five in December 2008, which was again\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1542\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> on\u00c2\u00a0<em>BaseballGB<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0No further issues were found in 2009, which left the web archive still four issues short of the complete set.<\/p>\n<p>The new year of 2010 brought good news, though, as Freddy Berowski of the National Baseball Hall of Fame&#8217;s library found copies of issues 44 and 45, which were both missing from the collection. These have just been added to the web archive.<\/p>\n<p>So now all that is needed is for issues 46 and 49 to turn up. If those can be uncovered then the set would be complete. As it stands, though, the collection of 49 issues still represents the most substantial body of information available on the web for baseball in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For links to issues 44 and 45, along with all the other issues available, please click <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectcobb.org.uk\/materials.html#p\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British baseball publication\u00c2\u00a0Baseball 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 covered both domestic and international baseball, as well as softball. The\u00c2\u00a0Baseball Mercury web archive was launched by Project Cobb, with the kind permission of William, in November 2008 &#8211; [&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":[143],"class_list":["post-6476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-cobb","tag-baseball-mercury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476","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=6476"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6488,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476\/revisions\/6488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}