1953 Goldfields Baseball League Touring Team
1953A black and white photograph of the 1953 Goldfields Baseball League Touring Team. The image is mounted on sepia-coloured cardboard. A single, grey, wavy line forms a border on the outer edges of the cardboard and a grey, straight, multi-line rectangle, printed on the cardboard, frames the photograph. Above the photo, in black print is the name of the league and the team, and the location and year date. Below the photo, printed in black, are the names of team members and officials.
A representative Goldfields Baseball League team was invited to participate in the South Australian Baseball League's 1953 Coronation Week Carnival in Adelaide, South Australia. The Carnival was held between May 30th and June 2nd.
On Sunday May 31st Goldfields League played Broken Hill League at Weigall Oval, which was followed by a South Australia versus Victoria game. The following day a game between the South Australian Country team and the Goldfields team took place on Unley Oval. On Coronation Day, Tuesday June 2nd, the Goldfields team faced a representative nine from the South Australian minor league. This game was the curtain raiser on Norwood Oval before Victoria again played a South Australian squad.
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'Goldfields Baseball League'
'Touring Team to Adelaide, 1953'
'Back Row: G. Williams, Ron Graffin, C. Read.'
'Centre Row: C. Rodgers, C. Smith, N. Mitchell, K. Carter, J. Sullivan, E. Rogers.'
'Front Row: A. D'Alton, J. Puckett, L. Rogers, J. Warburton, Roy Graffin.'
'Insets: D. Weir, P. Giblett.'
This photo was donated to the Baseball WA Museum & Archives by Colin Smith. Colin, at age 15, was one of four junior Goldfields baseball players to join a senior Goldfields 'touring' team that competed in the South Australian Baseball League's Coronation Week Carnival.
The photograph is a significant historic record of a Western Australian country league baseball team, that competed against interstate country league teams, at the height of the sport's popularity in the Goldfields. It has social significance with the inclusion of talented junior players in the team. Its provenance comes from one of those junior team members.
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