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2 unusual facts about Baseball at the 1956 Summer Olympics


Baseball at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Many Sheffield Shield cricket players who were quite successful at baseball as a winter sport were unable to be selected on the basis that they were professional players.

Australia did not strike back until the bottom of the 2nd inning, when Chalky White of South Australia hit a solo home run off Vane Sutton.


Gunnah Mollah

He went on to coach Queensland in 1955 and 1956 and umpired many games including Claxton Shield, a friendly series against the Tokyo Giants and the 1956 Olympics Baseball.


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