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Originally Posted by Henry Morton
On August 19th 1938 , in Halifax , England won the first ever World Amateur Baseball Championship by defeating the USA .
The England team largely comprised players from the West Riding of Yorkshire and from East Lancashire.
The USA team had planned to play in the 1940 Olympics, but for obvious reasons that was postponed.
I consider it highly likely that there would have been at least one England player with Accrington connections.
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That's fascinating. Unfortunately, after a bit of Googling, it seems that most of the British side were Canadians playing in the newly formed John Moores' Yorkshire-Lancashire Major League and the 'East Lancashire' is mainly South East Lancashire so there's little chance of an Accy connection. There are references at
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/s...766824,00.html,
http://www.rochdaleobserver.co.uk/ro...e_wayside.html,
http://www.lionssoftball.co.uk/baseball.htm and
http://www.sabruk.org/examiner/10/dewsbury.html.
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