{"id":9057,"date":"2010-09-01T21:49:18","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T20:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=9057"},"modified":"2010-09-01T21:58:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T20:58:22","slug":"cobbette-new-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=9057","title":{"rendered":"Cobbette: Not your standard pre-game ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cobbette-(128x128)\"Matt, the esteemed BaseballGB<\/em> editor, has kindly promoted the Cobbette feature to get a permanent berth in the sidebar down the right of the site. To repay his (misplaced?) faith in my ability to make this into a more regular “regular feature”, I thought I better put together a new one quickly, to avoid him changing his mind within the “cooling off period”.\u00c2\u00a0I’ve even gone as far as making this one relevant to his native East Anglia.<\/p>\n

The first post-promotion Cobbette is historical only in the sense that it is not the present or the future. At a mere 18 years old, this anecdote just got its A-level results, and it involves someone who has posted a comment on BaseballGB. In comment #7 here<\/a>, George Kurtzer refers to a game in which his “local BBF team lost by a measly 3-2 score” to the GB national team. What George didn’t mention about that afternoon game in 1992 is what happened during the morning.<\/p>\n

The anecdote is taken verbatim from the GB year-by-year history<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“Back at the start of the season, on 18 April, Great\u00c2\u00a0Britain played against the Bury Saints (from Bury St\u00c2\u00a0Edmunds) in Peterborough, winning a close contest\u00c2\u00a03\u00e2\u02c6\u20192. Of note, Saints catcher George Kurtzer, an\u00c2\u00a0American stationed at RAF Lakenheath, got married\u00c2\u00a0that morning (in his baseball uniform) before playing\u00c2\u00a0the game in the afternoon.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Britain played against the Bury Saints (from Bury St<\/div>\n
Edmunds) in Peterborough, winning a close contest<\/div>\n
3\u00e2\u02c6\u20192. Of note, Saints catcher George Kurtzer, an<\/div>\n
American stationed at RAF Lakenheath, got married<\/div>\n
that morning (in his baseball uniform) before playing<\/div>\n
the game in the afternoon<\/div>\n

If you have an interesting history snippet to share with a link to Britain then please send a message to Joe Gray through the <\/em>Get in contact<\/em><\/a> page.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt, the esteemed BaseballGB editor, has kindly promoted the Cobbette feature to get a permanent berth in the sidebar down the right of the site. To repay his (misplaced?) faith in my ability to make this into a more regular “regular feature”, I thought I better put together a new one quickly, to avoid him […]<\/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":[130],"class_list":["post-9057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-cobb","tag-cobbette"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057","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=9057"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9064,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057\/revisions\/9064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}