Fitzroy Baseball Club

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The Fitzroy Baseball Club, known as the Fitzroy Lions, is a baseball club founded in 1889 to represent the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria. The club was a founding member of the Victorian Baseball League, Victoria's first organised baseball competition.

Fitzroy has won 16 Division 1 championships and currently has seven senior teams competing in the Baseball Victoria Summer League, as well as junior sides representing the club at every age level.

Several notable cricketers played for Fitzroy early in the club's history including cricketer Bill Ponsford who played for Fitzroy from 1913 to 1934 and the Harvey brothers (Neil, Merv, Mick, Ray, Harold and Brian) who played from the 1930s to the 1960s

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Baseball Victoria Announces 2020 Victorian State Teams

Nov 6, 2019

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Life Members and Legends Interviews

28/09/2018

In the third interview of our series on Fitzroy Baseball Club Life Members, we speak to one of our past Presidents Peter Hooper who together with his late wife Joan and two sons Ian and Greg made a significant contribution to our club for many years. In fact the Hooper family has three Life Members, Peter, Joan and son Greg a great achievement and recognition of the family's valued support over a very long time that is still ongoing to the present day.

Read the story of his time at the club via the link below.

Interview with Peter Hooper

All interviews in the series so far can be found here.