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Parry Field Baseball Park: A dream come true - 1982 newspaper articles

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Overview

Five original newspaper articles from the Perth 'Daily News' newspaper, dated November 22, 1982, on the opening of Parry Field baseball park. The stories cover:
- history of the development of Parry Field baseball park;
- Kevin Parry honoured with the naming of the park;
- premier features incorporated into the park;
- the return of night baseball after a break of 20 years;
- a Belmont City Council facility.

Historical information

Parry Field Baseball Park was opened in 1982, four years after the journey began to find a new home for baseball in Perth.

Three prominent personalities in Western Australian baseball, Kevin Parry, Neville Pratt and Doug Corker, played significant roles in the development of Parry Field. The baseball park bears the name of Kevin Parry, who represented Western Australia 74 times and was an all-Australian player in 1962.

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cwa-org-100-2020.220

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Paper (Newsprint)

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Contextual Information

The newspaper articles were donated to the Baseball WA Museum & Archives by the family of Alan Luscombe, a Western Australian state league, national and international baseball umpire.

Keywords

Parry Field Baseball Stadium

Perth, Western Australia

City of Belmont, Western Australia

Baseball WA

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