Early baseball in Britain was sustained by an influx of expatriate players from baseball-playing nations, principally the US and Canada, but not exclusively so; and baseball was not always the reason that had brought these individuals to the UK. These articles endeavour to tell some of their stories.

Recommended Reading:

Project Cobb, the Project for the Chronicling of British Baseball: https://www.projectcobb.org.uk/

Harvey Sahker, ‘The Blokes of Summer’, Free Lance Writing Associates, Inc., 2011: lulu

Josh Chetwynd and Brian A Belton, ‘British Baseball and the West Ham Club’ McFarland and Company, 2007.

Daniel Bloyce, ‘John Moores and the ‘Professional’ Baseball Leagues in 1930s England’, Sport in History, 27:1 (2007), 64-87: https://doi.org/10.1080/17460260701231067

Banner Image: Baseball 1927: (Back Row, Left to Right) Eddie Roundy (Coach), Ralph H. Ayer ’28 (Manager), Durward S. Heal ’28, Meade J. Baldwin ’28, Pierre L. Fourcade ’28 (Asst. Manager), (Middle Row) Joseph Washington ’27, Edward P. Niziolek ’29, Andrew C. Klisik ’30. 1927. Black & white print, 9.6 x 13.8 inches. https://jstor.org/stable/community.351636.