Kalgoorlie Baseball Club junior team c.1962
c. 1962A black and white photograph, c.1962, of the Kalgoorlie Baseball Club junior team who are wearing their playing uniform. Seated with the team is the club scorer and the team mascot/ballboy, who is holding a trophy.
Junior baseball was re-introduced to the Goldfields Baseball League around 1956-57. This image is of a c.1962 Kalgoorlie Baseball Club junior team with the club scorer Mrs Doreen Fraser, and her nephew, Alan Mason, team mascot.
Team members include:
Back row (L-R): ......?......, Ernie McCreed, Ian Livingstone, Gary Pope.
Front row (L-R): Peter McCabe, Trevor Havelberg, Doreen Fraser, Kerry Hosking, Ernie Shackleton.
Mascot/Ballboy holding trophy: Alan Mason.
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Kalgoorlie Baseball Club player David Fraser, son of Doreen Fraser recalls: "My mum never missed a game and was a very passionate supporter and club scorer, colour pencils, the works. Mum tried very hard to be the moral compass for all 'her boys', juniors and seniors".
Details
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A copy of the photograph was donated to the Baseball WA Museum & Archives by Kalgoorlie Baseball Club junior team member David Fraser. The photo includes his mother Doreen Fraser, and his cousin Alan Mason (team mascot/ballboy).
Baseball in the Goldfields went into decline in the late 1960s, however in 1978 there was a revival of the sport, and David went on to play senior baseball in the Goldfields Baseball League.
Western Australia
Australia
The well-provenanced photograph has historic and social significance as it relates to junior baseball in the Goldfields region of Western Australian in the 1960s.
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