South Australian Baseball League 1953 Coronation Week Carnival Program

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1953

Overview

An A5-sized, four-page, buff-coloured program of the South Australian Baseball League's 1953 Coronation Week Carnival. It is printed on light card with black text.

Historical information

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.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-100-2020.565

Item type

Programmes

Themes

People
Social History
Sport

Material

Card

Width

13 cm

Height or length

18.5000 cm

Inscriptions and markings

[Front page]
'S.A. Baseball League Incorporated'
'Coronation Week Carnival'
'Saturday, 30th May'
'1953' [Handwritten in blue ink]
'Sunday, 31st May'
'Monday, 1st June'
'Tuesday, 2nd June'
'Victoria-Kalgoorlie'
'Broken Hill-Sth. Aus.'
'Price 3d.'

Contextual Information

This program 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.

Keywords

South Australian Baseball League

Goldfields Baseball League

Goldfields Baseball League Touring Team

1953 Coronation Week Carnival

Victorian Baseball Team

South Australian Baseball Team

South Australian Minor League Baseball Team

Broken Hill Baseball Team

Mount Gambier Baseball Team

Colin Smith

Place made

Australia

Year

1953

Statement of significance

The program 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.

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Social or spiritual significance

Comparative significance criteria

Object’s condition or completeness

Rare or representative

Well provenanced

Baseball WA

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