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

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.

Details

Details

Registration number
cwa-org-100-2020.220
Item type
Newspapers
Themes
People
Social History
Sport
Material
Paper (Newsprint)
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
Kevin Parry
Neville Pratt
Doug Corker
Perth, Western Australia
City of Belmont, Western Australia
Night Baseball
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Newspaper articles (1982) Parry Field Baseball Park features; Return of night baseball
Opening of Parry Field Baseball Park; History of the development;
Involvement of Kevin Parry (1982). [Courtesy of the Daily News]
2020.220 Newspaper article - Parry Field opening - 1982
Parry Field Baseball Park premier features; Return of night baseball (1982).
[Courtesy of the Daily News]

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