1961 Swan Districts Baseball Club Junior Premiers photograph

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Overview

A black and white photograph of the 1961 Swan Districts Baseball Club Junior Premiers team. The photo is mounted on the right-hand side of a light-tan-coloured photo display folder. Printed on the left-hand side of the opened folder is the name of the baseball club, the team's achievement and the names of the team members, including the manager and coach. The photo folder is discoloured from age and an outline from previous framing.

Historical information

The 1961 West Australian Junior Baseball League premiership team was the Swan Districts Baseball Club Under-16 team consisting of:
Peter Lauder (Capt.), David Hillman (V. Capt.), Ian Gibson, David Kitchens, Dave Rasmussen, Len Starkie, Terry Epps, Tony Robson, Kevin Robinson, Ron Russell, Kevin Russell, G. Kessell, Les Smith, Bruce Yardley, Bill Epps (Manager), Roy Gooch (Coach).

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-100-2020.739

Item type

Photographs

Themes

People
Photography
Social History
Sport

Material

Card

Photographic Paper

Width

21.4000 cm

Height or length

11 cm

Depth

0.0500 cm

Inscriptions and markings

'Swan Districts Baseball Club'
'Juniors'
'Premiers 1961'
'J. Gibson, W. Epps, D. Kitchens, D. Rasmussen'
'L. Starkie, T. Epps, R. Gooch (Coach), T. Robson'
'P. Lauder (Capt.), K. Robinson, D. Hillman (V. Capt.)'
'R. Russell, K. Russell, G. Kessell'
'L. Smith, B. Yardley'

Contextual Information

This item was part of the baseball memorabilia of the Epps family and was donated to the Baseball Museum & Archives by Bill and Jess Epps' niece Jean Beatson. Bill Epps (team manager) and his son Terry (catcher) are both depicted in the photograph. During the 1950s Bill Epps was a leading baseball umpire in Western Australia and regarded as one of the best umpires in Australia.

Also in the photograph is Roy Gooch (team coach) whose baseball career included representing Western Australia in every State Claxton Shield team between 1946 to 1957 (12 years), including Western Australia's first Claxton Shield win in 1952. Gooch was also selected in the Claxton Shield All-Star Team in 1954 (All-Australian) and coached the WA Claxton Shield in 1960. He was inducted into the Baseball WA Hall of Fame in 2022.

Another notable person in the photograph is Bruce Yardley (aged 14 years), who went on to represent Australia in cricket, playing 33 Test matches and 7 One Day Internationals between 1978 and 1983.

Keywords

1961 Western Australian Junior Baseball Team

1961 Swan Districts Junior Baseball Team

1961 Junior Baseball Premiers

Roy Gooch

Bill Epps

Bruce Yardley

Australian Baseball Umpires

Claxton Shield Championship

Place made

Western Australia, Australia

Year

1961

Statement of significance

This photographic memento has historic and social significance, recording the names and images of Western Australian junior baseballers who achieved a level of excellence in their sport. It includes images of senior members of the team (Gooch - coach; Epps - manager) whose outstanding careers in baseball (Gooch - player/coach; Epps - player/umpire) endowed another generation of Western Australian baseballers with their skills and knowledge of the game.

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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