1969-1970 West Perth Baseball Club State League Premiers – photograph

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Overview

A colour photograph of the 1969-1970 West Perth Baseball Club State League Premiers team. The photo is mounted on light-tan cardboard. Printed in black above the photo is the club's name, the team's winning title and the year. Below the photo, printed in black, are the names of the team members and officials.

Historical information

The West Perth Baseball Club is now a defunct senior grade/league club. It was originally called Wests Baseball Club, whose home ground was Langley Park. In 1955 the club was renamed West Perth Baseball Club and was relocated to Leederville Oval. In 1972 the club again relocated, to Millington Reserve, and was renamed West Stirling Baseball Club.

This is a photograph of the senior West Perth Baseball Club team as 1969-70 Premiers of the West Australian Baseball League.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-100-2020.382

Item type

Photographs

Themes

People
Photography
Social History
Sport

Material

Cardboard

Photographic Paper

Width

33 cm

Height or length

31.5000 cm

Inscriptions and markings

'West Perth Baseball Club (Inc.)'
'League Premiers 1969-1970'
'Back row: R. Wynne G. Sullivan I. Brunton K. Darragh K. Gray H. Denham'
'Middle row: T. O’Loughlin W. Wood B. Atkins B. Wren G. Winton D. Philbey I. Thompson J. Cole D. Arnold (Snr.)'
'Front row: R. Wyatt (Mngr.) L. Ford (President) R. Thornton (Capt. Coach) K. Denham M. Lenegan'
'Sitting: K. Winton D. Veaney (Bat Boy) D. Arnold'

Contextual Information

The photograph depicts a Western Australian baseball team from a league club that no longer exists. It was donated to the Baseball WA Museum & Archives by Warren Wood, a member of the 1969-1970 Premiers team and a Life Member of the West Stirling Baseball Club.

Keywords

West Perth Baseball Club

West Australian Baseball League

1969-70 Premiers

Western Australian Baseball Team

Western Australian Baseball Uniform

Sports Uniform

Statement of significance

As few copies of this photograph would still exist, it is a rare image of the State league baseball premiership team of 1969-70. It records part of the history of the defunct West Perth Baseball Club and is well provenanced by a player in the photograph.

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Social or spiritual significance

Comparative significance criteria

Rare or representative

Well provenanced

Baseball WA

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