1952 Western Australian Claxton Shield Series baseball team
This copy of a black and white newspaper article depicts the names and images of the winning 1952 Western Australian Claxton Shield Series baseball team.
The 1952 Claxton Shield was the 13th annual Claxton Shield, an Australian national baseball tournament, and was held in Perth, Western Australia at the Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA) ground. The participants were South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia. The series was won for the first time by Western Australia.
Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Claxton_Shield]
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[Photo caption]
'WA's triumphant Claxton Shield side of 1952. Back row, from left Gil Eddington (manager), Charlie Puckett, Ron Frankish, Geoff Forsaith, Eric Goodwin, Alex Barras (coach), George Dickinson, Andy Meloncelli, Bruce Jeffreys. Front row, Basil Rigg, Alan Bell, Brian Crutchett, Ben Shom, Jim Dore, Roy Gooch, Don Callanan, Jack Warburton. Five of the players, Callanan, Dore, Dickinson, Puckett and Shom were included in the 1952 all-Australian team, a record for all States which still stands.'
[Arrows in pink-coloured marker pen point to three team members whose names are also highlighted in the photo caption.]
[Hand-written above the photograph]
'1952 Claxton Shield Winners'
This was the West Australian Baseball League's first Claxton Shield title win. During the carnival WA pitcher Charlie Puckett broke an Australian record when he pitched without change for 16 innings against Victoria. Puckett struck out the Victorian side 11 times and held it to eight safe hits. Western Australia won 1-0. Puckett's hit in the 16th innings was also responsible for the winning run of the game. The duration of the game was also an Australian record for this series.
When the All-Australian team was chosen following the championship, five Western Australians were chosen by the panel of selectors, namely D. Callanan, J. Dore, G. Dickinson, C. Puckett and G. Shom.
National Library of Australia [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/49045575]
National Library of Australia [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/49046048]
This newspaper article is from the scrapbook of Glen Dunstan, a past Western Australian Claxton Shield Series representative. The scrapbook was donated to the Baseball WA Museum & Archives by the Dunstan family.
A newspaper article reporting on Western Australia's historic first win of the Australian Baseball Championships Claxton Shield trophy.
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