Parry Field Baseball Stadium 'No Toss Drill or Pepper' sign
A white-painted metal sign with the words 'NO TOSS DRILL OR PEPPER TO BE PLAYED INTO FENCES' hand-painted in black lettering. Holes are drilled in each corner of the sign.
Parry Field baseball stadium, in the Perth suburb of Belmont, was completed in 1982 and officially opened in January 1983. It was named after one of Western Australia's favourite baseball sons and benefactor, Kevin Parry, and served as the home of baseball in WA until the mid-1990s, when it was demolished.
This sign was attached to the batting cage.
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'NO TOSS DRILL OR PEPPER TO BE PLAYED INTO FENCES'
The sign was saved from Parry Field baseball stadium when it was demolished. It was donated to the Baseball WA Museum & Archives by Don Kyle, an elite player at both state and national level, and one of the most significant and admired coaches and managers Western Australia has produced.
As a relic from Baseball WA's first purpose-built baseball stadium, this simple sign has historic and social significance for baseball in Perth in the 1980s and 1990s. Its location on the batting cage fence meant it would have been known to every batter using the cage. Being hand-painted, it is unique and therefore rare, and shows only minor signs of wear and tear.
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