1983 Australian Baseball Championship Series program
1983A 36-page souvenir program for the 1983 Australian Baseball Championship Claxton Shield Series. The front and back covers are printed in colour on coated, gloss paper. The front cover has a black background with an artist's depiction of a baseball player, wearing Western Australia's state uniform, sliding into base in a cloud of dust. Standing over him is the baseman, in Victoria's state uniform, receiving the ball. There is a light tower lit up behind them.
In the centre of the cover is the green, yellow and white logo of the Australian Baseball Federation. Beside the logo is a white circle with black border containing a map of Australia. The State of Western Australia is highlighted in black on the map with a baseball player pointing to where the championship is to be held. The words inside the circle name the host city and the year date and the name of the trophy to be contested. Other text on the cover is the price of the program, the name of the main sponsor and stadium, and dates of the competition.
The inside front and back covers and the back cover display sponsors' advertisements. The inside pages are printed in colour and black and white on off-white gloss paper.
The Parry Field ballpark was officially opened by the Federal Minister for Home Affairs, the Hon. Tom McVeigh, during the opening ceremony of the 1983 Claxton Shield Series. It was the first international baseball facility built in Australia.
This souvenir program contains messages from the President of the WA Baseball League, Neville Pratt, the State Minister for Cultural Affairs and Recreation, the Hon. R.G. Pike, the Federal Minister, the Hon. Tom McVeigh, the President of the Australian Baseball Federation, John Anderson, and the Mayor of the City of Belmont, J.W. Rae.
Details
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[On front cover]
'Souvenir Programme $2'
'CAMEL Australian Baseball Championship'
'Claxton Shield Perth 1983'
[ABF logo]
'Parry field at Belmont oval'
'Perth Western Australia January 6-16'
Contained within the program is the playing schedule for the championship, pen pictures of the players from the six competing teams, lists of past winners of the Claxton Shield, the Helms Award, and the batting and fielding trophies. An article by Neville Pratt gives comprehensive statistics and details of the development of Parry Field.
The program was donated to the Baseball WA Museum & Archives by Kaye Greenham, who represented Western Australia in the Claxton Shield Series on 11 occasions between 1957 and 1974. He is a Baseball Australia Hall of Fame inductee (2014) and a Baseball WA Hall of Fame inductee (2021).
This program celebrates the historic moment when the first international Australian baseball stadium was officially opened. Containing a significant amount of information regarding the championship, the teams and the stadium, the program is in excellent condition and is well provenanced.
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