1969 Australian Baseball Championship program
A 28-page 1969 Australian Baseball Championship program for the Claxton Shield Series played in Melbourne, Victoria. The front cover is white with orange and black lettering and three black and white photographic images of baseball action from previous Claxton Shield series. Inside pages include: player profiles; games draw for the championships; history of the Claxton Shield; Ross Straw Field; playing schedule; elementary baseball rules; umpires panel; advertising. The back cover is white with text and graphics in orange and black. It displays details of the printer of the program, and an advertisement for a hire company.
The 1969 Claxton Shield Series was the 30th annual Claxton Shield, an Australian baseball tournament, and was held in Melbourne, Victoria from September 5-14. The participants were South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland. South Australia won the tournament; their 11th Shield win.
The Series was important because an Australian team was to be selected to contest a baseball series in Manila between Japan, the Philippines and Australia. This was the first time an Australian team was selected to travel overseas, and the winner and runner-up of the tournament progressed to the Asian Series. Australia finished 2nd.
Details
Details
[Front cover]
'Claxton Shield Series'
'Australian Baseball Championship 1969'
'Melbourne Victoria'
'September, 5th to 14th'
'20 cents'
[Back cover]
'This programme printed by Danforth Press Pty. Limited'
'65 Blackwood Street, Yarraville'
This 1969 program forms part of the Baseball WA Museum & Archives' collection of Claxton Shield Series baseball programs dating from 1937.
An historically significant and rare program that adds to the Baseball WA Museum & Archives' Claxton Shield Series program collection.
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