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
	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")

Project COBB articles

This section contains links to articles published as part of Project COBB.

PUBLICATION	DETAILS	LINK
	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.	Click here
	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.	Click here
	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).	Click here
	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.	Click here
	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.	Click here

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.

1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939

His diplay boards presented at Oldham Local Studies in 2012 on the town's baseball history can be accessed below.

Board 1 | Board 2 | Board 3 | Board 4 | Board 5 | Board 6 | Board 7 | Board 8

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.

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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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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".
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Author: LD Wood Year: Late 1930s Publisher: National Baseball Association ISBN: —
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.

AUTHOR	TITLE PUBLICATION	LINK
Josh Chetwynd	Baseball's battle for respect in the land of cricket, rugby, and soccer Baseball without Borders: the International Pastime (book)	Click here
Daniel Bloyce	A very peculiar practice: the London Baseball League, 1906–1911 NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture (journal)	Link broken
Daniel Bloyce	"Just not cricket": baseball in England, 1874–1900 International Journal of the History of Sport (journal)	Click here
Daniel Bloyce	"Glorious rounders": the American baseball invasion of England in two World Wars — unappealing American exceptionalism International Journal of the History of Sport (journal)	Click here
Daniel Bloyce	John Moores and the "professional" baseball leagues in 1930s England Sport in History (journal)	Click here
Daniel Bloyce	"That's your way of playing rounders, isn't it"? Sporting Traditions (journal)	Link broken
Daniel Bloyce and Patrick Murphy	Baseball in England: a case of prolonged cultural resistance Journal of Historical Sociology (journal)	Click here
Ian Smyth	The development of baseball in Northern England, 1935–39 International Journal of the History of Sport (journal)	Click here
Ian Smyth	Baseball put to the Test Baseball Research Journal (journal)	Click here
Daniel C. Beaver	Baseball, Modernity, and Science Discourse in British Popular Culture, 1871-1883 Cambridge University Press 'The Historical Journal' (2021), 1-23	Internal Link External Link

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