EXTERNALLY PUBLISHED
Project COBB books
Project COBB articles
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ONLINE PROJECTS
British Baseball Data
Stretford Saints vault
Mick Harrop's notes
Leicester Green Sox scrapbook
"Baseball Days"
Old research
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MISCELLANEOUS
Other in-print books
Out-of-print books
Other articles
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EXTERNALLY PUBLISHED
Project COBB books
This section contains details of published books produced as part of Project COBB.
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Editor: Joe Gray
Year: 2012
Publisher: Fineleaf Editions
Pages: 140
ISBN: 9781907741005
Description (from publisher)
Leading baseball writers describe the sport's history in
Britain, focusing on standout pitchers' defining seasons.
Download free PDF version (9.2mb)
Online supplementary material
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Author: Joe Gray
Year: 2010
Publisher: Fineleaf Editions
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9781907741005
Description (from blurb)
The book focuses on Britain's pro baseball league of 1890. It starts
with an exploration of the background to the circuit's formation. Next comes a
thorough game-by-game account of the 1890 season, which includes box scores
for almost all of the contests. Finally, the league's legacy is examined.
Download free PDF version (26.8mb)
Adapted chapter ("Bringing baseball to Britain")
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Project COBB articles
This section contains links to articles published as part of Project COBB.
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How Hull won the cup in 1937
Here, Colin Allan provides an account of Hull's path to victory in
the 1937 National Baseball Association Challenge Cup competition.
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Classic post-war finals in British baseball
This subject has been covered in an article that draws together game reports
and other details for a number of classic finals played since World War II.
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Albert King – A 1930s speedway fan turned baseball follower
In this article, Josh Chetwynd tells the story of how a speedway fan named Albert
King came to follow West Ham in the London Major Baseball League (1930s).
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The London Twilight Baseball League of 1976
This article looks at the London Twilight Baseball League of 1976, a project
led by Jeff Archer. While the league was short-lived, its innovative nature
gives it historical importance and also provides lessons for baseball today.
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An All-Star team of Major Leaguers who have played in Great Britain
In this article, Josh Chetwynd presents an All-Star team of Major League players who, at some point, competed in a baseball game in the United Kingdom.
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ONLINE PROJECTS
British Baseball Data
Most of Mark Tobin's research into post-World War II domestic standings and results has been incorporated into the archives
section of the Project COBB website. Not handled that way are projects on the Knockout Cup and on British clubs in Europe.
The Stretford Saints vault
This collection of materials relating to the Stretford Saints (1947–1973) was digitized by Dave Allen using materials provided by
Harold Booth and George Livsley. To access the research click here.
Mick Harrop's notes
Mick Harrop's research into results and league standings from different years of northern English baseball can be accessed below.
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His diplay boards presented at Oldham Local Studies in 2012 on the town's baseball history can be accessed below.
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Leicester Green Sox scrapbook
John Varnam has chronicled the history of the Leicester Green Sox (1954–64), primarily via cuttings and other memorabilia.
A PDF version of John's work can be accessed by clicking here.
"Baseball Days"
Dean Whiting's father Barry Whiting and Barry's brother Maurice Whiting played baseball for various teams in the London area
during the 1950s and 1960s. Dean has digitized photos and newspaper clippings from the family collection and supplemented
this with press cuttings from research he conducted into the 1949–1951 period of the West London Pioneers. A PDF created
for Project COBB by Dean, from his collection, can be downloaded by clicking here.
Old research
Pre-Project COBB research items made available here are Will Cosgrave's list of BBF champion teams from 1981 to 1995 and William Morgan's map of British baseball in 1992 with a brief history back to 1874.
MISCELLANEOUS
Other in-print books
This section contains a list of in-print books not published as part of Project COBB that have either focused on baseball in Britain
or covered it within a broader topic. If you know of a book that is missing from the list, please send an email to the address at
the top of the page or use the contact form that can be opened by clicking here.
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Authors: Josh Chetwynd and Brian A Belton
Year: 2007
Publisher: McFarland
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9780786425945
Description (from publisher)
This book traces the history of baseball as a popular British
sport concentrating on one particularly successful and
notable team, the West Ham Hammers.
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Author: Harvey Sahker
Year: 2011
Publisher: Free Lance Writing Associates
Pages: 324
ISBN: 9780980920918
Description (from publisher)
Baseball in Britain has been played at greyhound tracks and rugby stadiums
and former international airports, by soccer players and hockey players
and missionaries and professional entertainers – and computer
programmers. Together, they are the Blokes of Summer.
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Author: Josh Chetwynd
Year: 2008
Publisher: McFarland
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9780786437245
Description (from publisher)
Organized by country, this heavily researched book delves into the
history of baseball in 40 nations, describing not only the efforts
to spread the game but also the culture of baseball unique to Europe.
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Author: Beth Hise
Year: 2010
Publisher: Scala
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781857596441
Description (by Project COBB)
This comparison of baseball and cricket, which contains many
images from an associated exhibition that the author curated,
devotes a dozen pages to Britain's domestic baseball history.
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Author: Jerry Kuntz
Year: 2009
Publisher: McFarland
Pages: 238
ISBN: 9780786443758
Description (by publisher)
It's hard to imagine a wilder pair of brothers than Alfred and George Lawson.
Best known as early promoters of professional baseball, they were intense rivals
whose shared narcissism led them from one grand scheme to another, both in and
away from the game, generating headlines as they went. Alfred had a long career
as a player, manager, and minor league organizer before gaining notoriety as
a utopian novelist, philosopher, economic reformer, cult leader, and early
aviation promoter. George was a soldier, vaudeville troupe manager, performing
hypnotist, medical quack, evangelist, and anti-KKK crusader who sought to
break baseball's color line by founding integrated leagues.
Note (by Project COBB)
Contains fascinating coverage of 1890s British baseball.
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Author: Mark Lamster
Year: 2006
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9781586483111
Description (by Project COBB)
This thorough and very readable history of Spalding's World Tour
includes a section dedicated to the British leg of the trip.
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Author: James E Elfers
Year: 2003
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9780803267480
Description (by Project COBB)
This definitive account of Major League Baseball's 1913–14 World Tour
has a final chapter devoted to the British stop on the journey.
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Author: Jim Leeke
Year: 2003
Publisher: McFarland
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9780786478705
Description (by publisher)
As well as telling the story of the game mentioned in the title, the author provides a brief history of the Anglo-American Baseball League and armed forces baseball played in England, France and the United States during the Great War.
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Editors: Todd Anton and Bill Nowlin
Year: 2008
Publisher: Triumph Books
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781600781261
Description (by Project COBB)
This book includes writing on baseball in Britain during
World War II, with a chapter by Gary Bedingfield entitled
"The 1943 All-Pro Game in England".
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Author: Alan M Klein
Year: 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780300136395
Description (by Project COBB)
In exploring the globalization of baseball, Klein dedicates
several pages to the development of the game in Britain.
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Out-of-print books
This section contains a list of out-of-print books that have either focused on baseball in Britain or covered it within
a broader topic. If you know of a book that is missing from the list, please send an email to the address at
the top of the page or use the contact form that can be opened by clicking here.
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Author: Jeff Archer
Year: 1995
Publisher: White-Boucke
Pages: 234
ISBN: 9780962500671
Description (from the preface)
From the cow pastures of England to the magnificently manicured
baseball fields of Holland, [this] is a wonderful description
of how the game is interpreted in other countries.
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Author: Eric Whitehead
Year: 1939
Publisher: Link House
Pages: 116
ISBN: —
Description (by Project COBB)
This book provides information on the association football
and baseball scene in north-east England in the 1890s.
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Author: RG Knowles and Richard Morton
Year: 1896
Publisher: George Routledge & Sons
Pages: 132
ISBN: —
Description (by Project COBB)
This book contains many details on basebal in the
early 1890s, particularly in the London area.
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Author: Newton Crane
Year: 1891
Publisher: G Bell & Sons
Pages: 103
ISBN: —
Description (by Project COBB)
The first known British baseball book, this provides an
overview of many aspects of the game, with a British angle.
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Author: LD Wood
Year: Late 1930s
Publisher: National Baseball Association
ISBN: —
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Author: Bernard Day
Year: 1996
Publisher: Self-published
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9780952888703
Description (by Project COBB)
This book provides information on the association football
and baseball scene in north-east England in the 1890s.
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Author: Cliff Bagley
Year: 2006/7
Publisher: LDS Books
Pages: 72
ISBN: —
Description (by Project COBB)
Written by a Mormon missionary who played for the Rochdale Greys
in the 1930s, this book supplements the author's memories with
22 pages of press cuttings on British baseball in 1937 and 1938.
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Author: Gary Bedingfield
Year: 2000
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780738503219
Description (by Project COBB)
This book contains a wonderful series of images of World
War II baseball games in the UK and wider theatre of war.
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Author: Chipping Norton Local History Society
Year: 1989
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780862994570
Description (by Project COBB)
This book features a number of British baseball photos, with
descriptions, from Chipping Norton's history of the game.
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Author: Chipping Norton Local History Society
Year: 1989
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780862996574
Description (by Project COBB)
This book contains another set of photos (smaller than in the
first book) from Chipping Norton, with British Baseball Hall
of Famer Fred Lewis appearing as the book's cover image.
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Other articles
This section contains a list of articles not published as part of Project COBB that have either focused on baseball in Britain or
covered it within a broader topic. If you know of an article that is missing from the list, please send an email to the address at
the top of the page or use the contact form that can be opened by clicking here.
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Josh Chetwynd
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Baseball's battle for respect in the land of cricket, rugby, and soccer
Baseball without Borders: the International Pastime (book)
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Daniel Bloyce
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A very peculiar practice: the London Baseball League, 1906–1911
NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture (journal)
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Daniel Bloyce
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"Just not cricket": baseball in England, 1874–1900
International Journal of the History of Sport (journal)
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Daniel Bloyce
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"Glorious rounders": the American baseball invasion of England
in two World Wars — unappealing American exceptionalism
International Journal of the History of Sport (journal)
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Daniel Bloyce
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John Moores and the "professional" baseball leagues in 1930s England
Sport in History (journal)
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Daniel Bloyce
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"That's your way of playing rounders, isn't it"?
Sporting Traditions (journal)
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Daniel Bloyce and Patrick Murphy
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Baseball in England: a case of prolonged cultural resistance
Journal of Historical Sociology (journal)
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Ian Smyth
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The development of baseball in Northern England, 1935–39
International Journal of the History of Sport (journal)
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Ian Smyth
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Baseball put to the Test
Baseball Research Journal (journal)
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Daniel C. Beaver
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Baseball, Modernity, and Science Discourse in British Popular Culture, 1871-1883
Cambridge University Press 'The Historical Journal' (2021), 1-23
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