1946 Western Australian State baseball team

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Overview

Three black and white photographs taken in Perth, Western Australia at the 1946 interstate baseball tournament between the South Australian and Western Australian State teams. Two of the photos show the Western Australian team in playing uniform with their Manager Glen Dunstan. The third photo shows both State teams on the Perth Esplanade.

Historical information

In 1941 in Western Australia, the game of baseball was in its infancy when 95 per cent of the players enlisted in the armed services. It was decided the game should to go into recess in this State.
Following the end of World War II, the governing body of baseball in Australia decided to hold the annual carnival for the Claxton Shield in Sydney in 1946. A few members of the old executive of the W.A. Baseball League met and decided that, owing to the task of reviving the game in Western Australia, it would be impossible to send a team to the 1946 championships. However, it was hoped that Western Australia would be represented at the 1947 carnival to be held in Adelaide.
In the interim the WABL extended an invitation to South Australia to send a team to compete in a three-game tournament against a Western Australian team in Perth in 1946. Game 1 was played at the WACA Ground on September 1 and games 2 and 3 were contested on the Perth Esplanade on September 3 and 5.

National Library of Australia [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/50328767] [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/77819863]

Western Australian team (Photo A):
Back row: G. Day, B. Shom, A. McGowan, F. Day, J. Dore, A. Bell, W. Nightingale, J. Bateman,
G.H. Dunstan (Manager).
Front row: G. Dickinson, C. Puckett (Captain), W. Waldock, T. Nisbet, F. Crookes.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-100-2020.439(A,B,C)

Item type

Photographs

Themes

People
Photography
Social History
Sport

Material

Photographic Paper

Width

29.8000 cm

Height or length

21 cm

Contextual Information

These photos identify the first Western Australian State baseball team selected since 1939, and the only interstate game played in Perth since the 1938 Claxton Shield Series carnival.
Copies of original photographs were donated to the Baseball WA Museum & Archives by the family of Wally Nightingale, a member of the 1946 Western Australian team.

Keywords

Western Australian State Baseball Team

Western Australian State Baseball Uniform

1946 Interstate Baseball Tournament

Glen Dunstan

Wally Nightingale

Perth, Western Australia

South Australian State Baseball Team

South Australian State Baseball Uniform

Statement of significance

These three photographs have historic and social significance as a record of the resumption of competitive interstate baseball in Western Australia following World War II. They have good provenance, being part of the baseball memorabilia of a member of the 1946 Western Australian team.

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Social or spiritual significance

Comparative significance criteria

Object’s condition or completeness

Well provenanced

Baseball WA

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