John David Swanson (born 5 May 1940) is an Australian former
cricket
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er and
baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...
player. He played 29
first-class cricket
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...
matches for
Victoria
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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
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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 ...
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The 1965-66 Victorian District Cricket final
References
External links
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1940 births
Living people
Australian cricketers
Victoria cricketers
Cricketers from Melbourne
Australian baseball players
Sportsmen from Victoria (state)
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