1994 Australian Baseball Team - Baseball World Cup, Nicaragua

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Overview

A framed colour photograph of the 1994 Australian Baseball Team. Players are wearing grey playing unifoms with a yellow and green stripe around the edge of the neck and sleeves and down the trouser leg. The word 'Australia' is written diagonally across the chest in green with a yellow outline. On the bottom left-hand quadrant of each playing top is a player's individual number. The baseball caps are green with the word 'Australia' in yellow on the crown. The photo has been professionally framed in a wooden frame, painted black. It is sealed at the back and bears the framer's sticker.

Historical information

The 1994 Baseball World Cup (BWC) was the 32nd international men's amateur baseball tournament. The tournament was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation, which titled it the Amateur World Series (AWS) from the 1938 tournament to the 1986 AWS.
The 1994 tournament was held, for the fourth time, in Nicaragua, from August 3 to 14. There were 16 participating countries, split into two groups, with the first four of each group qualifying for the finals. Cuba defeated South Korea in the final to win its 21st title.

Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Baseball_World_Cup]

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-100-2020.434

Item type

Photographs

Themes

People
Photography
Social History
Sport

Material

Width

26 cm

Height or length

20 cm

Inscriptions and markings

[Photo framer's sticker on back of frame]
'Discount Picture Framing NORANDA'
'Shop 28A, Noranda Square Shopping Centre'
'Benara Road, Noranda'
'Tel. 276 6261'

Contextual Information

This item had been in the possession of Baseball WA and was passed to the Baseball WA Museum & Archives.

Keywords

1994 Australian Baseball Team

1994 Nicaragua World Baseball Championships

Baseball World Cup 1994

Paul Tye

Baseball WA

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