Western Australian baseball batting helmets
c. 1985Two fibreglass baseball batting helmets with black visors and yellow painted crowns. The fibreglass has a lot of scratches and missing paint. They have two air holes in the top of the crowns, internal headhands of brown vinyl and no lining. The helmets have the manufacturer's label inside, indicating they are different sizes; one size 'M', the other size 'L'. The medium size helmet has a circular, 6cm foam padding disc attached to the centre of the inside of the crown. The padding is missing from the large helmet. The medium size helmet has a 3cm (approx.) crack in the fibreglass on the right-hand side lower rim. On the larger helmet approximately 20cm of the lower rim on the back is missing or damaged.
The batting practice helmets would have been used by a Western Australian State baseball team during the 1980s.
Details
Details
[Manufacturer's label in helmet size M.]
'M'
'Head size 6⅞ - 7'
'Made in Japan'
[Manufacturer's label in helmet size L.]
'Made in Japan'
'L'
'Head size 7⅛ - 7¼'
These batting helmets were passed to the Baseball WA Museum & Archives by Doug Corker.
These batting helmets are a rare addition to the Museum's collection of baseball equipment.
Other items from Baseball WA
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1988 Western Australian State Under-16 Baseball Team
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1989 International Youth Development Squad Friendship Series — Australia Green
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1987 Western Australian State Under-16 Baseball Team
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1989 International Youth Development Squad Friendship Series — Australian Squad
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Baseball presented to Glen Dunstan, 1937 Newspaper Baseball League team captain
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1993 Australian National Youth 'B' Baseball Team
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1992 Australian National Youth 'B' Baseball Team
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