Baseball NT

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Australian governing body for baseball

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::summary Australian governing body for baseball ::

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FieldValue
nameBaseball Northern Territory
sportBaseball
jurisdictionNorthern Territory
founded
affWorld Baseball Softball Confederation
regionBaseball Confederation of Oceania
headquartersMarrara, Northern Territory
urlhttps://baseballnt.com.au/
countryflagNorthern Territory
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|name = Baseball Northern Territory |abbrev = |logo = |logosize = |sport = Baseball |category = |image = |caption = |jurisdiction = Northern Territory |membership = |founded = |aff = World Baseball Softball Confederation |affdate = |region = Baseball Confederation of Oceania |regionyear = |headquarters = Marrara, Northern Territory |location = |president = |chairman = |chairperson = |chiefexec = |vicepresident = |director = |secretary = |coach = |womenscoach = |key staff = |operating income = |sponsor = |year closed = |replaced = |prevfounded = |url = https://baseballnt.com.au/ |countryflag = Northern Territory |countryflagvar = |countryflag2 = |countryflagvar2 = |countryflag3 = |countryflagvar3 = |more = Baseball NT is the governing body of baseball within the Northern Territory, Australia. Baseball NT was formed in 1968 under its original name, the Northern Territory Baseball League. Historically, baseball in Australia and the Northern Territory has been an amateur sport.

Overview

Organised baseball is played in Darwin, Alice Springs and Katherine. Darwin has four clubs; Nightcliff Tigers, Palmerston Reds, Pints and Tracy Village Rebels. The East Darwin Beasts disbanded in 1987 and the South Darwin Rabbitohs disbanded in 2004. In Darwin, baseball is a dry-season sport, played between April and September each year. Baseball in Darwin is controlled by the Darwin Baseball Association.

The Katherine Baseball Association has four teams; Dodgers, Cubs, Angels and Braves. The sport is usually played between the months of February through to September, during the dry season. Predominantly, only under seventeen competitions are played due to a lack of interested players. Although a high percentage of participating players are successful in making local squads and Territory/ state teams.

Alice Springs has six teams; Bulls, Cubs, Demons, Panthers, Redbacks and Venom. In Alice Springs, baseball is a summer sport, usually played between October and March. Baseball in Alice Springs is controlled by the Alice Springs Baseball Association.

The Northern Territory competed in the national Claxton Shield competition between 1981 and 1989. During its nine-year admittance, the Northern Territory won only one game, in 1987, against South Australia with a score of 20–11. Bill Hutcheson, a Catcher, from originally Tennant Creek and later Darwin, was the only player to play in all nine Claxton Shields. Evan Gordon was the first Territorian to hit a home run on 16 January 1983, against NSW.

In 1991, the Territory joined the national Australian Provincial Championship (also known as the Commonwealth Cup) competition for regional Australian baseball.

Success for the Northern Territory is difficult as promising juniors are attracted away from the Territory to pursue careers in the southern leagues where their development and opportunities are greater. Max Hardy, Jon Mellor, Lachlan Burrows, Darren Welch, Wilson Lee, Sam Tibbits, Dushan Ruzic and Adrian Burnside. Rarely do these players return to the Northern Territory. This has created a catch 22 situation for Baseball NT whereby it understands that by developing home-grown talent, there is a good possibility these players will be lost to southern leagues, unlikely to return to the Northern Territory.

In November 1983 however, Territory players were selected to play for Australia against the touring Japanese Industrial League champions, Toshiba, and included, Bill Fryar, Dwayne McInnes, and Laurie Moore from Darwin; John Baldock from Tennant Creek Evan Gordon and Darren Welch from Alice Springs.

Since the late 1990s, the popularity and standard of baseball in the Northern Territory has steadily declined as it struggles to compete against Australian icon sports such as cricket, as well as attract juniors away from the information technology revolution such as computer games and the "hip-hop" culture.

References

References

  1. "Northern Territory Baseball Inc.". Baseball NT.
  2. "State Associations". Australian Baseball Federation.
  3. Holtzman, Jerome. (2007). "History: Amateur Baseball".
  4. Gmelch, George. (2006). "Baseball without Borders: The International Pastime". [[University of Nebraska Press]].
  5. "Baseball in Darwin". AsiaRooms.com.
  6. "Senior's". Alice Springs Baseball Association.
  7. Clark, Joe. (2003). "A History of Australian Baseball: Time & Game". [[University of Nebraska Press]].
  8. Australian Baseball Federation Inc. [https://secure.ausport.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/291541/Australian_Baseball_Federation_Annual_Report_1987-1988.pdf Annual Report 1987-88 (page16)] {{webarchive. link. (6 April 2012 . Retrieved 2015-05-08.)
  9. Interview with Bill Hutcheson of 21 August 2009.
  10. "NT Junior Sportsperson of the Year". NT Government Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport.
  11. "Jon Mellor Minor League Statistics & History". [[Society for American Baseball Research]].
  12. Dominitz, Nathan (10 July 2009) [http://savannahnow.com/node/750551 Welch comes from a land down under] {{Webarchive. link. (14 July 2012 . ''Savannah Morning News''. Retrieved on 21 September 2009.)
  13. Morris, Greg (22 April 2010). [http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2010/04/22/141901_ntsport.html ''Tyro pitcher on path to baseball big-time'']. Northern Territory News, page 38.
  14. Flintoff & Dunn. (18 January 2006). "Claxton News 2006".
  15. "Dushan Ruzic Minor League Statistics & History". [[Society for American Baseball Research]].
  16. (19 November 1983). "Japan side full of stars". [[News Limited]].
  17. (2006). "Handbook of Sports and Media". L. Erlbaum Associates.

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