Owing to the success of the one-day meetings, which many members could not attend, some asked if it would be possible to have transcripts of the lectures. The cost of producing printed copies was too expensive, but the PEA agreed to place some abstracts in their journal Physical Education. Then, in July 1963 they dedicated an edition entirely to sports medicine. This worked well but BASM realised that it really should have its own magazine to send clinical articles and news to its members. With the great increase in membership, in the number of meetings, and in the establishment of the Regions it was impossible for members to attend them all, so a vehicle of communication had to be established to undertake publication of proceedings, and to give a fairly rapid publication outlet for papers on clinical medicine applied to sport, exercise physiology, and other matters relative to the work of the Association. Thus, late the same year it started its own medical bulletin, entirely home produced. The first edition contained abstracts of papers presented at the joint meeting of the British Association of Sport and Medicine with the Fitness and Training Section of the Ergonomics Research Society held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 19th October 1963. It also included the minutes of the 11th Annual General Meeting of BASM that had occurred the same day, and followed by two pages of forthcoming events, notices and news. It was distributed in January 1964 and in his first editorial the then editor, Roy James, said “initially, of course, this bulletin will be limited both as to content and format, but given a measure of interest and co-operation in the part of the readers there seems no reason why it should not soon grow to take its place in the forefront of the literature devoted to sports medicine’. In 1969 its name changed to the British Journal of Sports Medicine.