1939 All-Australian Baseball Carnival advertising poster
An original poster advertising the All-Australian Baseball Carnival to be held in Melbourne from July 29 to August 5, 1939. The names of the five Australian states to compete in the tournament are printed around a drawn image of a baseball. The poster is printed on off-white paper with red and blue text.
The 1939 Claxton Shield was the sixth annual Claxton Shield, an Australian national baseball tournament. It was held at Richmond Cricket Ground, Albert Ground, South Melbourne Cricket Ground and National Park in Melbourne, Victoria.
New South Wales won the Shield for the third time, successfully defending their title from the previous two years. Queensland joined the other four states for the first time in the tournament. The other participating teams were Victoria, Western Australia and South Australia.
It was also the first year an Australia national team was picked primarily based on the Championships.
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A rare item of memorabilia from the 1939 Claxton Shield Series, which was only the third time that a Western Australian team had competed in the tournament.
The poster forms part of a scrapbook which belonged to 1939 Western Australian State team captain Glen Dunstan. The scrapbook was donated to the Baseball WA Museum & Archives by the Dunstan family.
This is a rare historic item of baseball ephemera that has survived in excellent condition. It promotes the major Australian baseball tournament of the day, at a time when the sport was gaining popularity in Western Australia.
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