{"id":9574,"date":"2010-12-25T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=9574"},"modified":"2010-12-11T12:59:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T12:59:39","slug":"countdown-to-sabr-day-2011-1930s-cobbette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=9574","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to SABR Day 2011: 1940s Cobbette – What became of WWII evacuees returning from US?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cobbette-(128x128)\"This is post\u00c2\u00a0six in a ten-post countdown to <\/strong>SABR Day 2011<\/a><\/strong>. The series is going through the decades of the 20th Century, backwards from the 1990s. On SABR Day itself, there will be a special feature on the 1890s,\u00c2\u00a0which will celebrate the significant link between keeping score and baseball history. This article will be published at 05:00 British time in order to coincide with the start of the day in the time-zone of the Cleveland-based SABR office. To view all the Cobbettes published to date, click <\/strong>here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1940s<\/h1>\n

It’s Christmas Day, so I hope you readers can forgive me for the shortest Cobbette in the current countdown series, as I need to get back to the burdensome task of sitting down and doing nothing.<\/p>\n

This Cobbette is really more to pose a \u00c2\u00a0question than to do anything else. The question was triggered when I read a New York Times<\/em> article from 2 August 1942 that contained the following observation:<\/p>\n

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“Many sportsman now believe that baseball will gain a new lease on life [in Britain] after the war, when British evacuee children return to this country, for, according to reports from the United States. English youngsters are already ardent fans of the great American game.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I know less about World War II than I should, and so I’m not sure of the number of young evacuees sent to the United States. It would be fascinating to know if anyone who developed a taste for the game under these circumstances became an important figure in the post-World War II British baseball scene. I suggest this would make a good research project for someone who was happy to carry out some dialling round of people we know were involved in the British baseball league in the 1950s.<\/p>\n

If you have an interesting history snippet to share\u00c2\u00a0that has\u00c2\u00a0a link to Britain then please send a message to Joe Gray through the <\/em>Get in contact<\/em><\/a> page. To see all of the work of Project Cobb, which is a Chartered Community of SABR (the Society for American Baseball Research), click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is post\u00c2\u00a0six in a ten-post countdown to SABR Day 2011. The series is going through the decades of the 20th Century, backwards from the 1990s. On SABR Day itself, there will be a special feature on the 1890s,\u00c2\u00a0which will celebrate the significant link between keeping score and baseball history. This article will be published […]<\/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":[347,556,130,348,343,345,346,344],"class_list":["post-9574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-cobb","tag-baseball-in-britain","tag-british-baseball","tag-cobbette","tag-evacuee","tag-evacuees","tag-world-war-ii","tag-world-war-two","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9574","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=9574"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9896,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9574\/revisions\/9896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}