{"id":7339,"date":"2010-04-03T12:51:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T11:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=7339"},"modified":"2010-04-03T12:59:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T11:59:30","slug":"new-collection-on-1950s-and-1960s-baseball-in-the-london-area-added-to-project-cobb-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=7339","title":{"rendered":"New collection on 1950s and 1960s baseball in the London area added to Project Cobb website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received an email from a designer named Dean Whiting, whose father Barry Whiting and uncle Maurice Whiting played baseball for various teams in the London area in the 1950s and 1960s. Dean has digitized photos and press cuttings from the family collection and also conducted some supplementary research into one particular team for whom his relatives played, the West London Pioneers. He has turned newspaper clippings he found for the 1949-1951 period on the West London Pioneers, as well as the materials from the family collection, into a PDF for Project Cobb. This can be downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectcobb.org.uk\/materials.html#dwbdc\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->There is some material with great historical value in the collection, and my favourite item is probably the team photo below for the Bushy Park Cardinals from 1962. Barry Whiting, who is described in one cutting in the collection as &#8220;probably the best Britisher in baseball,&#8221; is standing at the far right of the back row.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7351\" title=\"Cardinals_1962\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/Cardinals_1962.jpg\" alt=\"Cardinals_1962\" width=\"560\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/Cardinals_1962.jpg 560w, https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/Cardinals_1962-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received an email from a designer named Dean Whiting, whose father Barry Whiting and uncle Maurice Whiting played baseball for various teams in the London area in the 1950s and 1960s. Dean has digitized photos and press cuttings from the family collection and also conducted some supplementary research into one particular team for [&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":[],"class_list":["post-7339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-cobb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339","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=7339"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7360,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions\/7360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}