{"id":859,"date":"2008-10-20T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T23:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=859"},"modified":"2019-11-09T21:46:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T21:46:11","slug":"project-cobb-gets-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=859","title":{"rendered":"Project Cobb gets underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"12.0pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/bgb3\/images\/cobb_logo.gif\" alt=\"Project Cobb logo\" width=\"142\" height=\"99\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The just-launched Project Cobb (or the Project for the\u00c2\u00a0Chronicling of British Baseball)\u00c2\u00a0encourages the recording of baseball in Britain\u00c2\u00a0as it happens as well as the exploration and publishing of its history. To this end, Project Cobb\u00c2\u00a0publishes\u00c2\u00a0a central registry of research projects as well as a list of collaborators.<!--more--><br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Why was it started?<\/h4>\n<p>The main impetus for Project Cobb was the lack of a unifying place for the various threads of research into the history of baseball in Britain.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Who is it for?<\/h4>\n<p>Project Cobb offers a place for researchers into the history of baseball in Britain to publicize their work, but also informs baseball fans with information to share of\u00c2\u00a0the best person\u00c2\u00a0to contact.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Where can I find out more?<\/h4>\n<p>To find out more on this initiative, visit the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbbsa.org.uk\/cobb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Cobb webpage<\/a> and follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?cat=40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Cobb blog category<\/a> on <em>BaseballGB<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The just-launched Project Cobb (or the Project for the\u00c2\u00a0Chronicling of British Baseball)\u00c2\u00a0encourages the recording of baseball in Britain\u00c2\u00a0as it happens as well as the exploration and publishing of its history. To this end, Project Cobb\u00c2\u00a0publishes\u00c2\u00a0a central registry of research projects as well as a list of collaborators.<\/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":[558],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-cobb","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","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=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21386,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/21386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}