Aussie Rules-- Baseball Down Under

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Posted By: Max Weder

I don't think we've had a thread lately on Australian baseball images. Here's an RPPC I just picked up



Max

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Are there any photos of Spalding's World Tour of 1888 playing in Australia? You always see the famous photo of them playing in front of the pyramids and the photo of them sitting on the Sphinx...I think there was even a photo of them sitting on camels that was just recently auctioned off (Which went pretty low if you ask me -somewhere around $900), but I don't think I've seen any photos from that tour other than the Egyptian stop.

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Posted By: Max Weder

Dan

I thought there was an Australian poster from the World Tour, but I might be mistaken.

Here's something a little more mundane, a 1929 boys' series book with a baseball cover.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

I've seen the poster...and I'm pretty sure that the only poster made for the tour says "Australian tour" on it because it was an impromptu decision to make it a 'World tour' while they were on there way to Australia. Doesn't it have a picture of Mike Kelly on it too? For those who don't know, Kelly was a no show for the tour which angered some of the American cities on the tour.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

I saw a cricket match in Brisbane, Australia.

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Posted By: barrysloate

I've seen a picture of that poster, but to my knowledge no original has ever surfaced.

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Posted By: Max Weder

The seller of the first NSW baseball team had another RPPC

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Aussies just don't look like ballplayers. Maybe the uniforms are too clean?