1988 World Under-19 Youth Baseball Series, Sydney – poster
1988An A2-size, colourful landscape poster, printed on white, coated paper, advertising the 1988 World Under-19 Youth Baseball Series in Sydney, Australia. In the top third of the poster, is an image of the Sydney Harbour bridge and the Sydney Opera House. Above the bridge are the flags of the tournament's eight competing countries. In the centre of the poster is the green, yellow and white logo of the Series. The logo has the white stars of the Southern Cross constellation on the left of the letters 'WYS' over a green and yellow background. To the right of 'WYS' is a stylised green and white striped image of a kangaroo beside a white baseball with green stitching to the seams. Below the logo is the name of the tournament, the year date, the host city, ticket prices, contact details for organisers, and dates, times and location for bronze and gold medal games, plus the Toshiba vs. New South Wales All Stars game. In grey panels down the left and right-hand sides is the schedule of games and events. Across the bottom of the poster are logos, in green, of associated organisations: Australian Sports Commission; North Shore Baseball Club; Australian Baseball Federation; Australian Bicentenary; New South Wales Baseball League; Auburn Orioles; and the International Baseball Association.
The VIII World Under-19 Baseball Series was held in Sydney, Australia in 1988. Teams from the United States, Cuba, the Republic of China, Chinese-Taipei, South Korea, Canada, Italy and Australia competed from December 9 to December 18.
Games were played at both North Shore Baseball Club and Auburn Baseball Club, with all night games played at Auburn's Oriole Park ground, as it was the only lit international standard diamond in Sydney. The Oriole Park stadium no longer exists.
Final results: Gold medal – United States defeated Cuba 8‒1; Bronze medal – Chinese-Taipei defeated Australia 3‒0.
National Library of Australia [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/110612378] [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/102038745]
Details
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'WYS
'World - U/19 - Youth'
'Baseball - Series - 88'
'Sydney - Australia'
This poster complements other 1988 World Youth Series memorabilia held in the Baseball WA Museum & Archives collection, namely a program, pennant and commemorative medallion from the series.
The Australian team included Western Australians Travis Nicolau, Heath Gillard and Assistant Coach Bob Grove.
The poster was donated to the Baseball WA Museum by Lyall Barwick.
1988 was Australia's bicentennial year and many major sporting events were held throughout the country. This poster has historic significance and is an aid to research into the1988 baseball series by way of the amount of information it displays. It is rare and in excellent condition and has fine provenance, as the donor himself was an Australian junior/youth baseball representative during that period.
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