Baseball Archipelago
Jamie Barras
In this series, I tell the story of early encounters and near misses between Britons and American baseball.
The Transit of Venus: The Royal Navy and baseball in the Pacific in the 1870s, and its unlikely sequel in England 20 years later.
A Species of Cricket: Prince Alfred, the Royal Navy, and a game of “bat and ball” played on 3 July 1863 at Kessock Inn, Scotland.
The Base Ballists: A Reverie: An exercise in alternate history, assembling a baseball nine from real American residents of England to take on an English nine at Lord’s Cricket Ground, 1 April 1870; a game that never happened but could have.
The London Americans: Companion piece to The Base Ballists, telling the story of the first periodical published in England to feature baseball coverage.
