PUBLICATIONS
Fanzines
Magazines
Newsletters
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THE ANTHONY TAYLOR COLLECTION
Programmes
Hull Baseball Gazette
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THE DON TINTON SCRAPBOOK
Programmes
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OTHER ARTEFACTS
William Morgan interviews
League handbooks
Other: pre-WWII
Other: 1940s | Other: 1950s
Other: 1960s | Other: 1970s
Other: 1980s | Other: 1990s
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MISCELLANEOUS
YouTube video clips
British Pathé video clips
Cartoons

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PUBLICATIONS

Fanzines

Below are fanzines that have been made available online through Project COBB. If you have any publications that
you would like to be added, please send an email to the address at the top of the page.

GRAPHIC	DESCRIPTION	LINKS
	A complete collection of Linedrive! Linedrive! was a fanzine edited by Phil Ross and illustrated by "Rex" that primarily covered the renegade National League Baseball circuit of 1992 to 1994.	Click here
	*Volume 2 no 1–3 of News Sheet* (from 1948)** News Sheet was produced by Harry Cabel – and, later, Geoff Rogers as well – on behalf of the Southern Counties Baseball Association	Vol 2 no 1 Vol 2 no 2 Vol 2 no 3

Magazines

Below are magazines that have been made available online through Project COBB. If you have any publications that
you would like to be added, please send an email to the address at the top of the page.

GRAPHIC	DESCRIPTION	LINKS
	A collection of baseball articles from Double Play Double Play was a glossy magazine published by BaseballSoftballUK between 1999 and 2003.	Click here
	Issues of Baseball UK Baseball UK was an independent magazine published in 1990.	No 1 \| No 2 \| No 3
	Issues of Grand Slam Grand Slam was an A5 magazine published by the British Baseball Federation – South in 1987.	No 1 \| No 2 \| No 3 No 4 \| No 5 \| No 6 No 7 (mislabelled) No 8 \| No 9
	Issues 1–5 of the short-lived Baseball (in Britain) Monthly The British baseball publication Baseball (in Britain) Monthly was edited by Ernie Mathews of Benfleet, Essex in 1950. Only a few issues are believed to have been published, but the publication's scope covered domestic baseball in great detail.	Issue 1 Issue 2 Issue 3 Issue 4 Issue 5

Newsletters

Below are some historically important newsletters that have been made available online through Project COBB. If you have any
publications that you would like to be added, please send an email to the address at the top of the page.

GRAPHIC	DESCRIPTION	LINKS
	A nearly complete collection of Baseball Mercury The British baseball publication Baseball Mercury was edited by baseball historian William Morgan from 1972 until 1989. Fifty-one issues were produced in all, and the publication's scope covered both domestic and international baseball, as well as softball.	Click here
	A nearly complete collection of Brit-Ball Brit-Ball, a newsletter described as "The Official Voice of the British Baseball Federation," was published between 1993 and 1998.	Click here
	Some issues from Vol I (1993) and Vol II (1994) of Knuckleball Knuckleball was edited by Phil Ross (who also produced Linedrive!) and the publication's subtitle was "the Ups and Downs and Ins an Outs of National League Baseball," with the circuit referred to being run independently of the national governing body in the early 1990s.	Vol I no 1 Vol I no 6 Vol II no 1 Vol II no 3 Vol II no 4 Vol II no 5 Vol II no 6 Vol II no 7 Vol II no 8
	Fifteen issues of Baseball Courier The newsletter Baseball Courier was William Morgan's precursor to Baseball Mercury; 24 issues were produced in all.	Issue 1 – Issue 2 Issue 3 – Issue 4 Issue 5 – Issue 6 Issue 7 – Issue 8 Issue 9 – Issue 10 Issue 11 – Issue 17 Issue 18 – Issue 22 Issue 24
	*Volume 1 issue 1 of Baseball News* (from 1979)** Baseball News was billed as the Official Newspaper of the Southern Baseball Association; a second issue was also produced.	Click here
	*Volume 1 issue 2 of Baseball* (from June 1939)** Baseball was a monthly newsletter published by the London County Baseball Association.	Click here
	*Baseball News: A News Sheet of Baseball* Baseball News: A News Sheet of Baseball was published by the South Eastern Baseball League in the 1950s.	06-06-1953 16-07-1953 21-08-1954 28-05-1955 01-07-1955

THE ANTHONY TAYLOR COLLECTION

Programmes

Anthony Taylor, a British-based collector, has kindly digitized the programmes from his collection relevant to Project COBB.

DATE	GAME	LINKS
10 October 1917	198th Battalion (Canadian Buffs) versus Epsom Canadian Convalescent Hospital, in Godalming	File 1 – File 2a File 2b – File 3 File 4
25 August 1923	SS Leviathan versus All Star Legionnaires, in Southampton	File 1 File 2 – File 3
1 and 3 August 1931	A game at Margate Football Club between two sides from the Anglo-American Baseball Association	File 1 – File 2
31 July 1935	Yorkshire versus Lancashire, at Headingley cricket ground	File 1 – File 2
2 May 1936	West Ham's first ever public game – against the Hackney Royals, in front of a crowd which a local paper noted was over 4000 in size	File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4
2 May 1936	A London Major League programme featuring the Streatham–Mitcham Giants. The Giants' home ground was at Mitcham Stadium, just across the road from Tooting and Mitcham FC's old ground, in Sandy Lane. The Giants played just five games in May 1936 before folding with an 0–5 record (they lost their first home game by 20 runs to 7 against West Ham). The Giants featured New Zealand rugby union and league legend George Nepia.	File 1 – File 2 File 3
9 May 1936	Romford Wasps versus Hackney Royals, at Romford Stadium	File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4
16 May 1936	West Ham versus Catford Saints, at West Ham Stadium	File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4 File 5
23 May 1936	Catford Saints versus Romford Wasps, at Catford Stadium	File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4
1 June 1936	White City versus Harringay, at Brighton and Hove Greyhound Stadium (opened in 1928, this venue became the last at which London Major League Baseball was played still to exist in unchanged form, when Catford Dogs was closed in 2007: White City, West Ham Stadium, Harringay Stadium, and Romford were all long gone by the end of the 20th Century, as was the old Nunhead FC ground at which Catford Saints played in 1937 [just an open field at Nunhead Recreation Ground remained], and Hackney Stadium is now the 2012 Olympics site)	File 1 – File 2 File 3
7 June 1936	A game against Oxfordshire that was the first in an inter-area competition that West Ham played in 1936 (there was an Oxfordshire league active from 1934); West Ham's other games in the competition were versus Oldham (West Ham won 11–3), Yorkshire (won 18–8), and Liverpool (won 16–2); all games were played at the West Ham Stadium, Custom House	File 1 – File 2 File 3
13 June 1936	Catford Saints versus White City, at Catford Stadium	File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4 File 5
21 June 1936	West Ham versus Harringay, at West Ham Stadium	File 1 – File 2
28 June 1936	White City versus Harringay, at White City Stadium	File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4
19 July 1936	West Ham versus Yorkshire League in the 1936 inter-area competition; West Ham won 18–8	File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4
25 July 1936	West Ham versus Liverpool in the inter-area competition; West Ham won 16–2; includes a great page on Bill Irvine, the West Ham third baseman	File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4
30 July 1936	Sheffield Dons versus Wakefield Cubs in the second round of the NBA Cup, at Owlerton Stadium	File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4 File 5
3 August 1936	Hull versus West Ham, at Craven Park. This fixture is not listed in either the Hull or West Ham programmes of the period. West Ham had played in London on both the Saturday (1 August) and Sunday (2 August) and so may have made an overnight trip on the milk train to get to Hull. The programme includes photos and a rare Yorkshire League table.	File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4 File 5 – File 6
4 August 1936	Sheffield Dons versus West Ham, in an exhibition game that attracted over 3000 to the Owlerton Stadium on a Tuesday afternoon. The pencil notes indicate that Sheffield were given a 15-run start and that Roland Gladu hit a ball out of the ground.	File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4 File 5
8 August 1936	Romford Wasps versus West Ham, at Romford Stadium	File 1 – File 2
8 August 1936	Sheffield Dons versus Greenfield Giants, at Owlerton Stadium	File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4 File 5
9 August 1936	White City versus Ashton Hawks, at White City Stadium	File 1 – File 2 File 3
20 August 1936	West Ham versus the 1936 USA Olympic baseball team, at West Ham Stadium	File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4
22 August 1936	West Ham versus the Catford Saints, at West Ham Stadium	File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4 File 5 – File 6
6 September 1936	West Ham's last home game of the 1936 season, against league champions White City in the first leg of the London Cup Final	File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4 File 5 – File 6 File 7
5 May 1937	York City Maroons versus Scarborough Sea Gulls, at Bootham Crescent	File 1 – File 2 File 3
15 May 1937	Greenfield Giants (Bradford) versus West Ham, probably in the 1937 national cup, at Greenfield Stadium	File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4 File 5
16 May 1937	Pirates (West Ham) versus Nunhead, at West Ham Stadium	File 1 – File 2 File 3
30 May 1937	West Ham versus Romford Wasps, at West Ham Stadium	File 1 – File 2
June 1937	Sheffield Dons versus York City Maroons, at Owlerton Stadium	File 1 – File 2 File 3
19 June 1937	Hull versus Sheffield in the 1st round of the NBA Cup, played at Craven Park, Hull	File 1 – File 2
27 June 1937	Romford Wasps versus West Ham, at Romford Stadium	File 1 – File 2
27 June 1937	Pirates (West Ham) versus Corinthians (Romford), at West Ham Stadium	File 1 – File 2 File 3
1 July 1937	West Ham versus Catford Saints, at West Ham Stadium (the programme cover is signed by Pirates shortstop "Slim" Tyson)	File 1 – File 2
14 August 1937	National Baseball Association Challenge Cup Final, at Craven Park	File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4 File 5 – File 6
8 June 1938	Leeds/Sheffield versus Hull/York in the League Cup, at Headingley (the Lancashire–Yorkshire league held a League Cup competition at the start of the season when players from two clubs played on a combined side; other pairings in 1938 were Liverpool/Bolton and Rochdale/Oldham)	File 1 – File 2
6 July 1938	Leeds versus Sheffield, at Headingley (probably the rugby league ground)	File 1 – File 2
19 July 1938	Rochdale/Oldham versus US Navy, at Spotland soccer ground	File 1 – File 2
21 July 1938	Halifax versus Rochdale, at the Shay soccer ground (the National Cup Semi-final, which finished 4–2 to the Greys; all of the Greys have signed the programme in pencil)	File 1 – File 2 File 3
23 July 1938	Halifax versus Greenfield Giants (Bradford), at the Shay soccer ground	File 1 – File 2
2 August 1938	Bolton Scarlets versus Leeds, at Raikes Park	File 1 – File 2
17 August 1938	Yorkshire versus USA, at Owlerton Stadium	File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4
19 August 1938	England versus USA (5th Test), at Headingley rugby league ground	File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4
13 May 1939	Rochdale Greys versus Hull, at Spotland (Opening Day and the last game in Britain for star Greys pitcher Bruce Hanks)	File 1 – File 2
15 May 1939	A county trial game at the original ground of Hull Kingston Rovers – the successful players to represent the county against Lancashire at Halifax	File 1 – File 2 File 3
6 June 1939	Rochdale Greys versus Liverpool, at Spotland (signed by Cliff Bagley and Clarence Beckstrom)	File 1 – File 2
1 August 1939	Rochdale Greys versus Caledonians, another side with several players from the Church of the Latter day Saints (Mormons)	File 1 – File 2 File 3
5 August 1939	National Baseball Association Challenge Cup Final, at the Shay soccer ground	File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4 File 5 – File 6 File 7 – File 8
5 June 1943	Baseball at the Vetch Field, Swansea (the home ground of Swansea City FC) – The Wolves versus The Rinky-Dinks; these two sides played in the 12th Port of Embarkation League, part of the US Army Western Base Section. Other teams in the league were the Hounds and the Bronco-Busters	File 1 – File 2
9–11 August 1949	A programme for a US team playing in the Channel Isles; the home team line-ups suggest that at least eight local teams were in existance	File 1 – File 2 File 3
21 June 1950	Ashton Seagulls versus Burtonwood Bees, at Hurst Cross	File 1 – File 2 File 3
26 July 1952	England versus Canada, at Leatherhead FC soccer ground	File 1 – File 2
7 August 1953	Manston Cats (USAF) versus Snowdown Magpies of the South Eastern Baseball League, at the Kent County Cricket Ground in Canterbury	File 1 – File 2

Hull Baseball Gazette

This has been kindly digitized for Project COBB by Anthony Taylor.

ISSUE 1	ISSUE 2	ISSUE 3	ISSUE 4	ISSUE 5	ISSUE 6	ISSUE 7
(May 1952) File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4 File 5 – File 6 File 7	(June 1952) File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4 File 5 – File 6	(July 1952) File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4 File 5 – File 6 File 7 – File 8 File 9 – File 10 File 11 – File 12	(Sept 1952) File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4 File 5 – File 6 File 7 – File 8 File 9 – File 10 File 11 – File 12 File 13 – File 14 File 15 – File 16	(Nov 1952) File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4 File 5 – File 6 File 7 – File 8 File 9 – File 10 File 11	(Feb 1953) File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4 File 5 – File 6 File 7 – File 8 File 9 – File 10 File 11 – File 12 File 13 – File 14	(April 1953) File 1 – File 2 File 3 – File 4 File 5 – File 6 File 7 – File 8 File 9 – File 10 File 11 – File 12 File 13

THE DON TINTON SCRAPBOOK

Programmes

Don Tinton, who played baseball in south-east England from the start of the 1950s to the end of the 1960s, maintained a detailed scrapbook, and below are a section of the programmes he kept.

DATE	GAME	LINKS
1936	West Ham versus White City, at West Ham	Click here
1937	West Ham versus Pirates, at West Ham Stadium	Click here
1937	Pirates versus Corinthians, at West Ham Stadium	Click here
1938	London versus America, at Romford Stadium	Click here
1950	Essex Nationals versus Hornsey Red Sox in the South Eastern Baseball League Senior Cup Final, at Fondu Sports Ground	Click here
1950	Essex Cubs versus Fondu, at Mayesbrook Park	Click here
1950	Monarchs (Wokingham) versus Essex Cubs in the Southern Counties Baseball Association Intermediate Cup Final, at Hornsey Red Sox Ground	Click here
1950	Aveley Cubs versus Essex Cubs in the South Eastern Baseball League Intermediate Cup Final, at Thames Board Mills Sports Ground	Click here
1950	South Eastern League versus Western Amateur League, at Briggs Sports Ground	Click here
1953	South Eastern Counties All Stars versus Western Counties All Stars, at Briggs Sports Ground	Click here
1956	Western Counties versus Eastern Counties, at Sutton	Click here
1956	Benfleet Greys versus Essex All Stars and South East England versus US Navy (London), at Southend Stadium	Click here
1957	Southern Baseball Association versus Western Counties Baseball Association, at Briggs Sports Ground	Click here
1963	US Navy versus South of England, at Crystal Palace Football Club Ground	Click here

OTHER ARTEFACTS

Willam Morgan interviews

This document includes interviews thought to be conducted by William Morgan with Ross Kendrick, Peter Ash, and Don Smallwood. It also has some notes from some British baseball coverage in newspapers.

League handbooks

Past league handbooks provide details of fixtures, competition structures, team personnel, and club details that are often
otherwise unavailable. If you have a handbook that you would like to see added, please send an email to the address
at the top of the page.

YEAR	LEAGUE	LINK
1937	North of England National Baseball League	Click here
1939	Metropolitan Baseball League	Click here
1949	London East Baseball League	Click here
1951	Merseyside Baseball League	Click here
1955	South Eastern Baseball League	Click here
1956	South Eastern Baseball League	Click here
1958	Southern Baseball Association	Click here
1960	Southern Baseball Association	Click here
1961	Southern Baseball Association	Click here
1962	Southern Baseball Association	Click here
1963	Southern Baseball Association	Click here
1964	Southern Baseball Association	Click here
1966	Southern Senior Divisions	Click here
1966	National Baseball League	Click here
1967	National Baseball League	Click here
1968	National Baseball League	Click here
1987	British Baseball Federation South	Click here
1988	British Baseball Federation South	Click here
1989	British Baseball Federation South	Click here
1990	British Baseball Federation South	Click here

Other: pre-World War II

Below are other digitized artefacts from pre-World War II British baseball history that have been made available online
through Project COBB. If you have materials that you would like to see added, please send an email to the address
at the top of the page.

National final/play-off

Great Britain team

YEAR	DESCRIPTION	LINK
1898	Medal awarded to J Mellors of Derby	Click here
1908	Scorecard from a game between Clapton Orient and Crystal Palace reserves	Click here
1908	Scorecard from a game between Clapton Orient and Tottenham Hotspur	Click here
1908	Scorecard from a game between Clapton Orient and Brentford, including fixtures and early-season results	Click here
1936	Programme cover from a game between the US Olympic Team and White City	Click here
1936	Programme cover from the north of England league cup final, between the Oldham Greyhounds and Manchester Blue Sox	Click here
1936	Programme from a game in the London Cup between West Ham and the Romford Wasps	Click here
1937	Programme, with linescore, for a London Major League game between West Ham and the Pirates	Click here
1937	Programme cover for Nunhead baseball club in the London Major Baseball League	Click here
1937	Programme cover for 1937 Challenge Cup Final, Hull vs Romford, Craven Park, Hull	Click here
1937	Programme cover for West Ham baseball club in the London Major Baseball League	Click here
1938	Programme from an International Professional Baseball League game between the Hull Giants and a combined Newcastle–Middlesbrough team	Click here
1938	Front cover from the first issue of the Metropolitan Baseball League monthly magazine	Click here
1938	Programme from an exhibition game between Pritchett & Gold and Thames Board Mills	Click here
1939	Programme cover from a game between Halifax and Fords	Click here

Other: 1940s

Below are other digitized artefacts from British baseball history in the 1940s that have been made available online
through Project COBB. If you have materials that you would like to see added, please send an email to the address
at the top of the page.

National final/play-off

Great Britain team

YEAR	DESCRIPTION	LINK
1944	Programme (partially damaged) from a game between Everton and Napiers Sabres	Click here
1945	Programme from a game between the Caledonians and Napiers Sabres	Click here
1947	Programme, with linescore, for the Southern Counties Baseball Association Cup Final between the West London Pioneers and Thames Board Mills	Click here
1948	Programme for a game between the Rochdale Greys and the Stretford Saints	Click here
1949	Programme cover for a game between the American Air Force and Manchester and District League	Click here
1949	Programme for a game between the West London Pioneers and the Mitcham Royals	Click here
1949	Programme for a game between the West London Pioneers and "The Rest"	Click here
1949	Programme, with linescore, for the national final between the Hornsey Red Sox and the Liverpool Cubs	Click here

Other: 1950s

Below are other digitized artefacts from British baseball history in the 1950s that have been made available online
through Project COBB. If you have materials that you would like to see added, please send an email to the address
at the top of the page.

National final/play-off

Great Britain team

YEAR	DESCRIPTION	LINK
1950	Programme and ticket from the Grand Challenge match between the Ashton Seagulls and the Rest of the League (featuring Cardinals, Greyhounds, Red Sox, and Swinton players)	Click here (programme) Click here (ticket)
1952	Poster for final of Lancashire Cup, at Mandale Park	Click here
1953	Programme from a game between the USAF's Tournament Team and a Merseyside League select squad	Click here
1954	Programme from a game between "Possibles" and "Probables" for the West London Pioneers	Click here
1956	Schedule for the Nottingham Baseball League	Click here
1958	Programme, with linescore, from a game between Hull and the US Navy	Click here
1958	Programme cover from a game between Hull and the Royal Canadian Air Force	Click here
1959	Programme, with linescore, from a game between Hull and the Chelveston Cowboys, a US Air Force side	Click here
1959	Programme, with linescore, from the national final between the East Hull Aces and Thames Board Mills	Click here

Other: 1960s

Below are other digitized artefacts from British baseball history in the 1960s that have been made available online
through Project COBB. If you have materials that you would like to see added, please send an email to the address
at the top of the page.

National final/play-off

Great Britain team

YEAR	DESCRIPTION	LINK
1960	Programme and poster (A2 original size) from a game between the Liverpool Aces and Stretford Saints	Click here (programme) Click here (poster)
1960	Programme and ticket from the national final between the Liverpool Tigers and Thames Board Mills	Click here (programme) Click here (ticket)
1961	Programme from International Baseball Week (Haarlem), featuring the London All Stars and Alconbury Spartans	Click here
1962	Outside of programme for the Stretford Saints in the Merseyside National Baseball League	Click here
1962	Programme, with linescores, from the four-team National Baseball Club Trophy	Click here
1963	Programme for the Stretford Saints	Click here
1963	Programme from a game between the US Navy and a South of England all-star team	Click here
1963	Programme from a game between the Merseyside All Stars and the Alconbury Braves	Click here
1963	Scorecard, with completed names, from a game between the Southern League and the National League	Click here
1963	Ticket from the National Baseball League's Consolation Cup (featuring Nottingham, Coventry, and Hull Austin British Legion)	Click here
Circa 1963	Programme, with linescore, from a North versus South all-star game	Click here
1964	Programme, with linescore against unidentified opposition, for three of the Hull Aces' home league games	Click here
1964	Programme from a game between the US Navy and a South of England all-star team	Click here
1964	Programme for the National Baseball Club Trophy (featuring Ford Sports, Garringtons, Nottingham Athletic, and the Hull Aces)	Click here
1964	Programme for the Orford Trophy (featuring the Stretford Saints, the Hull Aces, Garringtons, and the US Navy)	Click here
1965	Programme, with linescore, from a game between the Hull Aces and the US Navy	Click here
1965	Programme, with a completed scoresheet, from the game in 1965 between Great Britain and the Dutch	Click here
1965	Programme from a game between the Hull Aces and the Stretford Saints	Click here
1965	Programme from a game between the Hull Aces and Garringtons	Click here
1965	Programme for the 1965 European Cup northern section	Click here
1966	Programme from a game between the East Hull Aces and Bromsgrove	Click here
1966	Poster for a game between the East Hull Aces and Bromsgrove	Click here
1966	Poster for a game between the East Hull Aces and Liverpool	Click here
1966	Annotated programme, with a press cutting, from a game played in 1966 under floodlights between a British all-star team and the Mormon Elders	Click here
1966	Programme from the 1966 all-star game between the North of England and the South of England	Click here
1966	Programme for the Orford Trophy (featuring the Stretford Saints, the Hull Aces, Thames Board Mills, and the Beckenham Blue Jays)	Click here
1967	Programme from the 1967 Brighton Festival, in which England took on a US base side from Wethersfield	Click here
1967	Signed programme and signed poster from the 1967 European Championship A-Pool	Click here (programme) Click here (poster)

Other: 1970s

Below are other digitized artefacts from British baseball history in the 1970s that have been made available online
through Project COBB. If you have materials that you would like to see added, please send an email to the address
at the top of the page.

National final/play-off

Great Britain team

YEAR	DESCRIPTION	LINK
1970	Programme for the Hull Aces	Click here
1971	Fixtures list for Rosehill	Click here
1976	Programme for the London Twilight Baseball League	Click here
1976	Programme from the 1976 national final, which pitted Kensington Spirit of '76 against the Liverpool Trojans	Click here
1977	Flyer, with schedule, for London Spirit of '76 (this was produced by the rugby club, whose ground the team used, and it contains several inaccuracies)	Click here
1977	Programme from the 1977 Yankees' National Baseball League	Click here
1979	Programme from the 1979 national final between the Golders Green Sox and the Hull Aces	Click here

Other: 1980s

Below are other digitized artefacts from British baseball history in the 1980s that have been made available online
through Project COBB. If you have materials that you would like to see added, please send an email to the address
at the top of the page.

National final/play-off

Great Britain team

YEAR	DESCRIPTION	LINK
1980	Poster (A2 original size) and programme from the 1980 national final between the Liverpool Trojans and the Hull Aces	Click here (poster) Click here (programme)
1981	Programme from the 1981 national final	Click here
1982	32-page programme from a game between the UK and US All Stars	Click here
1982	Poster (A2 original size) from the 1982 national final between the Liverpool Trojans and the Hull Aces	Click here
1983	Leaflet from the All American Sports Day at Stamford Bridge	Click here
1983	Programme for the 1983 national final between the Hull Mets and the Cobham Yankees	Click here
1984	Programme from the 1984 European Championship B-Pool in Hull	Click here
1985	Programme for the Sutton Braves including an insert for a game against the Rochester City Dodgers	Click here
1986	Programme for the Crawley Giants Baseball Club's Annual Invitational Tournament	Click here
1986	Programme for the Sutton Braves including an insert for a game against the Cobham Yankees	Click here
1986	Programme for the Radio Trent Knights	Click here
1986	Programme (in French) from the 1986 European Championship B-Pool	Click here
1986	Programme and ticket for the 1986 national final between the Hull Mets and the Cobham Yankees	Click here (programme) Click here (ticket)
1987	Programme for the Crawley Giants Baseball Club's Annual Invitational Tournament	Click here
1987	Programme for the Humberside Baseball Festival	Click here
1987	Programme celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Sutton Braves	Click here
1987	Poster and programme for the 1987 national final between the Cobham Yankees and the Southglade Hornets	Click here (poster) Click here (programme)
1988	Poster for the European Championship B-Pool (note: Finland entered instead of Tunisia, as marked)	Click here
1988	Programme cover from the Scottish Amicable National Baseball League	Click here
1988	Poster, with fixtures for Richmond Athletic Ground, from the Scottish Amicable National Baseball League	Click here
1988	Poster, with fixtures for Harvey Hadden Staidum, from the Scottish Amicable National Baseball League	Click here
1988	24-page programme for the 1988 national final between the Cobham Yankees and the Burtoonwood Braves	Click here
1989	Programme cover from the Scottish Amicable National Baseball League	Click here
1989	Signed programme for the Major League Alumni versus GB game	Click here
1989	Programme cover and selected inside pages from the European Cup B-Pool, hosted in Reading	Click here
1989	Insert from the programme for the Scottish Amicable National Baseball League final between the Southern Tigers and the Humberside County Bears	Click here
1989	Rosters from programme for the 1989 national final between the Enfield Spartans and the Sutton Braves	Click here

Other: 1990s

Below are other digitized artefacts from British baseball history in the 1990s that have been made available online
through Project COBB. If you have materials that you would like to see added, please send an email to the address
at the top of the page.

National final/play-off

Great Britain team

YEAR	DESCRIPTION	LINK
1991	Programme for a game between the Cambridge Royals and the Nottingham Pirates	Click here
1991	Programme for a game between the Enfield Spartans and the London Athletics	Click here
1991	Programme for the 1991 national play-offs, featuring the London Athletics, the Enfield Spartans, and the Nottingham Hornets	Click here
1992	Programme for a National League Baseball game between the Cambridge Knights and the London Warriors	Click here
1992	Signed poster for the European Championship B-Pool	Click here
1993	Programme for a National League Baseball game between the Cambridge Knights and the London Warriors	Click here
1993	Programme for the 1993 National League Baseball grand final between the London Warriors and the Enfield Spartans	Click here
1994	Signed poster for the European Championship B-Pool	Click here
1995	Programme for the Enfield Spartans (former major leaguer Jim Bouton is listed on the roster, but he was never able to make the trip across the Atlantic to play)	Click here
1996	Programme and signed poster for the European Championship B-Pool	Click here (programme) Click here (poster)
1997	Signed poster for the European Championship A-Pool	Click here
1997	Programme from the 1997 national final between the Kingston Cobras and the London Warriors	Click here
1998	Programme from the 1998 national final between the Menwith Hill Patriots and the London Warriors	Click here

MISCELLANEOUS

YouTube video clips

> Liverpool Trojans versus Burtonwood Braves (1980s): click here
> Brighton Buccaneers and Team GB (1999–2005): click here

British Pathé video clips

Project COBB has set up a workspace on British Pathé's digital news archive to highlight historical video clips of baseball
in Britain. To view the workspace click here. Most of the clips are of either touring teams or service personnel, but the
first clip in the workspace is on women and men playing domestic baseball in Yorkshire in 1949.

Cartoons

Below are some collections of British baseball-themed humorous cartoons that have been made available online through
Project COBB.

IMAGE	MATERIALS	LINK
	Cartoons by Ken Pyne from Baseball: A Cricketer's Guide Among a number of baseball titles published for a British audience around the time of Scottish Amicable's sponsorship deal was 1987's Baseball: A Cricketer's Guide, which contained a series of cartoons on British baseball by Ken Pyne. Pyne's work has featured in Private Eye and The Times.	Click here
	Cartoons by "Rex" from Linedrive! Linedrive! was a fanzine edited by Phil Ross and illustrated by "Rex" that primarily covered the renegade National League Baseball circuit of 1992 to 1994.	Click here