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Baseball Australia Hall Of Fame
The Baseball Australia Hall of Fame or Australian Baseball Federation Hall of Fame is a group of baseball players, managers and coaches who have been recognised by the Australian Baseball Federation (ABF) as having influenced baseball in Australia over a prolonged period of time "at the highest level available at the time." The concept of an Australian baseball hall of fame was first formally raised in 2002 when the ABF board created a Heritage Committee, who were tasked with creating a hall of fame including the selection criteria and induction process. The first group of inductees was announced in December 2004, and were formally inducted at a presentation ceremony on 27 January 2005. Since 2006, new groups have since been inducted as part of the Baseball Australia Diamond Awards each year. Inductees Through 2018, 88 people have been inducted into the hall of fame. Notable inductees include; * Norman Claxton (2005) *Philip Dale (2005) * Ronny Johnson (2005) *Frank Laver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABF Hall Of Fame
ABF may refer to: Organizations * ABF Freight System, an American company * Africa Badminton Federation * American Bar Foundation * Arbetarnas bildningsförbund, Swedish for "Workers' Educational Association" * Argentina Boxing Federation * Army Benevolent Fund * Artists' Benevolent Fund * Associated British Foods * Australian Baseball Federation * Australian Border Force Other uses * Abai Sungai language, an Austronesian language of Malaysia * Abaiang Airport, Abaiang, Kiribati *Bergen County Academies, Academy for Business and Finance, part of high school Bergen County Academies in New Jersey, United States * Ammonium bifluoride * Amorphous brazing foil * Applications-By-Forms, a component of CA-OpenIngres * Availability-based tariff * Aviation boatswain's mate, fuels {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Page
Neil Philip Page (born 17 January 1944) is a former Australian baseball representative. A left-hand starting pitcher, he regularly played for Australia from 1964 until 1977.''Hall of Fame inductees'' . Australian Baseball Federation: Neil Page. Retrieved 25 November 2010 Career Page was born in , the son of Roy Page, a well-known local baseball identity. As a junior, Page grew up playing for the and[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brendan Kingman
Brendan Kingman (born 22 May 1973) is an Australian baseball player and coach for the Sydney Blue Sox of the Australian Baseball League. Playing career Kingman was one of the most respected and prolific power hitters in Australia in the 90s and 2000s. He still holds the record as the longest serving Australian Baseball representative. His career in baseball started at age 6 when asked to participate in a tee-ball game, and he hit a home run in his first at-bat. Kingman was a part of every representative team in Australia throughout the rest of his playing career. Career highlights * 1998 - Australia's only Triple Crown winner 1998 Sydney Storm of the Australian Baseball League * 2004 Olympics - Hit in the only run against Daisuke Matsuzaka to win the semi-final against Japan * As of 2012, Kingman was two home runs from breaking the Australian home run record. 1991–1995: Marlins and Australia Kingman's professional career in Australia began in 1991. A year later, he joined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Quinn (second Baseman)
Joseph "Joe" James Quinn (25 December 1864 – 12 November 1940) was an Australian second baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball. Born in Ipswich, Queensland, to Patrick Quinn and Catherine, née McAfee, both from Ireland, he was the only Australian-born player to reach the major leagues until Craig Shipley in 1986. Career Quinn started his career in 1884 with the Union Association's St. Louis Maroons, which won the pennant. He was one of few players from that league to later find success in the National League. Throughout his career, Quinn was known for his defensive skills, and he led NL second basemen in fielding percentage twice. Quinn also had two stints as a big league manager, with the St. Louis Browns in 1895 and the Cleveland Spiders in 1899. His Browns club went 11–28 under his guidance, and the Spiders were even worse, going 12–104. His career .148 winning percentage is one of the lowest in baseball history. He was, as a player, arguably th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Williams
Glenn David Williams (born 18 July 1977) is a retired third baseman from Australia, who played in the Minnesota Twins organization. He played in Major League Baseball for the Twins during the season. He was a member of the team that won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Williams had a 13-game career hitting streak, as he had a hit in every game that he played in while in the major leagues. Glenn is the elder of two children. His father Gary Williams has been heavily involved in the development of baseball in Australia. Both Gary and Glenn Williams have represented their native Australia in international baseball competitions. In 1993, as a 16-year-old, Glenn signed a lucrative free agent contract with the Atlanta Braves for an estimated 1.3 million Australian dollars. Since that time, Glenn has played baseball for the minor league affiliates of the Atlanta Braves, Toronto Blue Jays, and Minnesota Twins. After spending over 10 years in the min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Wearne
Simone Wearne (born 5 December 1980 in Melbourne) was a pitcher for the Australia women's national baseball team. At the 2006 Women's Baseball World Cup she was named in the All-World team as a starting pitcher. She was a member of the Australian team which won the 2002 Women's World Baseball Series, and was named co-MVP of the tournament along with First Baseman Sue Fairhurst. She is the sister of professional baseball infielder Scott Wearne Scott may refer to: Places Canada * Scott, Quebec, municipality in the Nouvelle-Beauce regional municipality in Quebec * Scott, Saskatchewan, a town in the Rural Municipality of Tramping Lake No. 380 * Rural Municipality of Scott No. 98, Saskat .... She is a player and coach for Melbourne based baseball club the Springvale Lions (women's program). She was coach of the Women's National Team from 2013 - 2018, and has coached Victoria Blue and South Australia at the Women's National Championships. Simone coached the 18U Australian Women' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monty Noble
Montague Alfred Noble (28 January 1873 – 22 June 1940) was an Australian cricketer who played for New South Wales and Australia. A right-hand batsman, right-handed bowler who could deliver both medium pace and off-break bowling, capable fieldsman and tactically sound captain, Noble is considered one of the great Australian all-rounders. He scored 13,975 first class runs between 1893 and 1920 and took 624 wickets. He made 37 centuries – including a best of 284 in 1902 – and set several partnership and high-score records for his State team. He played 42 Tests for his country, and captained the team for 15 of these between 1903 and 1909. Only the 12th captain of his country, he won eight of these games, lost five and drew two. Between his first Test in January 1898 and his last in August 1909, he scored 1,997 runs at 30.25 and took 121 wickets at 25.00. He complemented his only century, 133 in 1903, by scoring 16 half-centuries. Noble played 39 of his 42 Tests against Englan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shayne Bennett
Shayne Anthony Bennett (born 10 April 1972) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for North Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), and was a right-handed baseball pitcher, who last played in Major League Baseball with the Montreal Expos on 15 August 1999. The youngest brother to fellow North Adelaide footballer Peter Bennett, Shayne was a leading junior footballer for North Adelaide and was drafted by Victorian Football League (VFL) team Collingwood at the 1989 VFL Draft with the 56th selection. Bennett never made his senior debut for Collingwood. Instead, he travelled to the United States and started playing baseball at the College of DuPage. He was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 1993 Major League Baseball draft in the 25th round and, after three years playing in the minor leagues, was traded to the Montreal Expos in January 1996. He played with the Expos in the majors for part of , all of , and part of . His final profess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Deeble
Jon Deeble (born 18 May 1962 in Melbourne) is the head coach of the Melbourne Aces of the Australian Baseball League and the former manager of the Australian national baseball team. Career Deeble was a pitcher on the national team he now coaches from 1983 to 1995, a playing career which included the 1988 Olympics and an Australian Baseball League championship with the Melbourne Monarchs in 1993. He later went on to be a minor league manager in North American professional baseball, working in the Florida Marlins and Boston Red Sox organizations. After spending 15 seasons (2002–16) as coordinator of scouting for the Pacific Rim region for the Red Sox, Deeble joined the Los Angeles Dodgers' organization in October 2016. Deeble managed the Australian squad at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics, leading the team to a silver medal in the latter Games. Deeble was Australia's manager, as well, in the 2006 World Baseball Classic and 2009 World Baseball Classic. With the Red Sox organization, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Swanson (cricketer)
John David Swanson (born 5 May 1940) is an Australian former cricketer and baseball player. He played 29 first-class cricket matches for Victoria between 1965/66 and 1970/71. He also played baseball for Victoria between 1964 and 1975 and Australia. He won the Claxton Shield batting title in 1967-1968 and won the Helms Award as MVP in 1968. He was an inaugural inductee in the Australian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005. See also * List of Victoria first-class cricketers This is a list of Victoria first-class cricketers. The Victoria cricket team have played first-class cricket since 1851, when they played the Tasmania cricket team at Launceston. Below is a chronological list of cricketers to have represented Vi ... * The 1965-66 Victorian District Cricket final References External links * 1940 births Living people Australian cricketers Victoria cricketers Cricketers from Melbourne Australian baseball players Sportsmen from Victoria (state) {{Australia-cricke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Straw
Ross Straw was an Australian Olympic coach and former Olympic baseball competitor. He captained the Australian team at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. He was one of the first Australians to be offered a contract with a Major League Baseball team, the Boston Red Sox. Straw was instrumental in getting Australia involved in Baseball Federation of Asia competitions. He was a member of the Victorian Wartime team in 1942 and 1943, and played for and coached the Victorian state team from 1942 to 1969. Straw was first appointed national coaching director (appointed by what was then the Australian Baseball Council, now the Australian Baseball Federation Baseball Australia, formerly the Australian Baseball Federation is the national governing body of Baseball in Australia and owns the Australian Baseball League. Baseball is played in all the mainland states and territories, but it struggles fo ...) in 1975 and formed Australia's first national elite coaching committee. Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Shipley
Craig Barry Shipley (born 7 January 1963) is an Australian-born executive and former player in Major League Baseball. On 16 November 2012, he was appointed special assistant to Arizona Diamondbacks general manager Kevin Towers. Shipley was born and raised in Australia, attended Epping Boys High School in New South Wales and learned to play baseball from his father, Barry. He played college baseball at Alabama as a shortstop. As a player, he was an infielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers (1986–87), New York Mets (1989), San Diego Padres (1991–94 and 1996–97), Houston Astros (1995) and Anaheim Angels (1998). He played collegiately at the University of Alabama. Shipley batted and threw right-handed; he stood tall, and weighed (12 stone 7). Shipley began switch-hitting in college at the suggestion of his coaches. Before the start of the 1986 season, after struggling offensively for two seasons in the minors, he reverted to batting exclusively from the right side of the pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
