Baseball & Softball - Wellington Basin Reserve
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Baseball & Softball

02 Oct Baseball & Softball

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Of the American sports played in 1800s’ New Zealand, baseball perhaps benefited most from the place of cricket as our national game as many players crossed codes. In Wellington, the first recorded baseball game was played between Wellington and the, suitably American-sounding, Hick’s Sawyer Ministrels at the Basin Reserve in 1889. The first national provincial softball championship was played for the Beatty Cup at the Basin Reserve in 1939. Auckland were decisive champions, beating Wellington 20-0 in the final.

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