St Kilda Baseball Club

St Kilda Saints
League Baseball Victoria Summer League - Summer Melbourne Winter Baseball League - Winter (Division 2 - Summer, B grade - Winter)
Location Albert Park, Victoria
Ballpark Tom O’Halloran Field, Albert Park
Year founded 1879
Colors Black, White, Red, Yellow
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The St Kilda Saints Baseball Club is a Baseball Club based in the inner Melbourne suburb of St Kilda. The club is the oldest Baseball Club in Australia, it was first formed in 1879[1] and played a series of games against the touring Georgia Minstrels.[2]

The Club currently fields senior teams in Summer in the Baseball Victoria Summer League in Division 2, 3 and 4, In winter the club fields senior teams in the Melbourne Winter Baseball League in B and E grades. The club also runs a combined junior Baseball Club with the Port Melbourne Baseball Club known as the Port Phillip Stingrays.

History

The St Kilda Baseball Club was formed in 1879[3] to play against the traveling Hick Georgia Minstrels,[4] However once the Minstrels left Melbourne, Victoria the club went into recess.[5] The Club reformed in 1889 with the establishment of the Victorian Baseball League.

The St Kilda Baseball Club was one of the 8 clubs that succeeded from the original Victorian Baseball League in 1915 to form the Victorian Baseball Union, the others being Melbourne, East Melbourne, South Melbourne, Fitzroy, Carlton, Richmond, Collingwood and Hawthorn.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Baseball. The Argus, 19 May 1879
  2. ↑ Baseball. The Argus, 28 July 1879
  3. ↑ Baseball. The Argus, 19 May 1879
  4. ↑ Baseball. The Argus, 28 July 1879
  5. ↑ Baseball, Base Ball Association. Australian Town and Country Journal, 6 March 1886
  6. ↑ Baseball, A Critical Position. The Argus, 5 April 1915

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