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Baseball Team players [B 1730A] • Photograph

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Summary

A Baseball team. Two of the players are wearing tops with SURVEY written on them. In 1888, two American teams ('Chicago Colts' and an 'All star' team) visited South Australia, and played three exhibition matches, 26-28 December, which attracted interest in the game. Subsequently a baseball league was formed at a meeting in Adelaide held on 19 March 1889, with Mr. T. Gepp (Mayor of Kensington & Norwood) being elected President. The Survey team was one of the first South Australian baseball teams to be established, named for the workers of the Surveyor-General's Department. A researcher has provided the following information: the player wearing a SURVEY top, standing on the right side and holding a baseball is Rue Ewers. The name of one of the other players is possibly A.C. Edwards.

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Physical description

1 photograph : black and white ; 15 x 9.3 cm

Dates / Publication details

1889

Photographer

Gall, Ernest

Collection

Part of General Collection

Subject

Ewers, Rue (Rudolph), 1867-1940
Baseball players.
Baseball -- South Australia.

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Digitisation information

Date

15/03/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,132 x 2,231 pixels (7.0 MP)

Size

21.00 MB

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