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Baseball NT is the governing body of baseball within the Northern Territory, Australia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Northern Territory Baseball Inc. )〕 Baseball NT was formed in 1968 under its original name, the Northern Territory Baseball League.〔 Baseball NT is governed nationally by the Australian Baseball Federation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=State Associations )〕 Historically, baseball in Australia and the Northern Territory has been an amateur sport. == Overview == Organised baseball is played in Darwin, Alice Springs and Katherine. Darwin has four clubs; Nightcliff Tigers, Palmerston Reds, Pints and Tracy Village Rebels.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Baseball in Darwin )〕 The East Darwin Beasts disbanded in 1987 and the South Darwin Rabbitohs disbanded in 2004. In Darwin, baseball is a dry-season sport, played between April and September each year. Baseball in Darwin is controlled by the Darwin Baseball Association. The Katherine Baseball Association has four teams; Dodgers, Cubs, Angels and Braves. The sport is usually played between the months of February through to September, during the dry season. Predominantly, only under seventeen competitions are played due to a lack of interested players. Although a high percentage of participating players are successful in making local squads and Territory/ state teams. Alice Springs has six teams; Bulls, Cubs, Demons, Panthers, Redbacks and Venom.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Senior's )〕 In Alice Springs, baseball is a summer sport, usually played between October and March. Baseball in Alice Springs is controlled by the Alice Springs Baseball Association. The Northern Territory competed in the national Claxton Shield competition between 1981 and 1989. During its nine-year admittance, the Northern Territory won only one game, in 1988, against South Australia with a score of 20-11.〔Australian Baseball Federation Inc. (Annual Report 1987-88 (page16) ). Retrieved 2015-05-08.〕 Bill Hutcheson, a Catcher, from originally Tennant Creek and later Darwin, was the only player to play in all nine Claxton Shields. He was also the first Territorian to hit a home run in 1984, against Victoria.〔Interview with Bill Hutcheson of 21 August 2009.〕 In 1991, the Territory joined the national Australian Provincial Championship (also known as the Commonwealth Cup) competition for regional Australian baseball.〔 Bill Fryar became the first Territorian to hit a home run in 1992, against Queensland. In 1999, the Northern Territory won the Cup for the first time under the leadership of Captain/Coach, Andrew Kendray.〔The Official Handbook of the Darwin Baseball League Inc: 1999 Edition.〕 Success for the Northern Territory is difficult as promising juniors are attracted away from the Territory to pursue careers in the southern leagues where their development and opportunities are greater.〔 Several Territorian home-grown players have gone onto successful baseball careers and these most notably include Max Hardy, Jon Mellor,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NT Junior Sportsperson of the Year )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jon Mellor Minor League Statistics & History )〕 Lachlan Burrows, Darren Welch,〔Dominitz, Nathan (10 July 2009) (Welch comes from a land down under ). ''Savannah Morning News''. Retrieved on 21 September 2009.〕 Wilson Lee,〔Morris, Greg (22 April 2010). (''Tyro pitcher on path to baseball big-time'' ). Northern Territory News, page 38.〕 Sam Tibbits, Dushan Ruzic〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dushan Ruzic Minor League Statistics & History )〕 and Adrian Burnside.〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Adrian Burnside Minor League Statistics & History )〕 Rarely do these players return to the Northern Territory. This has created a catch 22 situation for Baseball NT whereby it understands that by developing home-grown talent, there is a good possibility these players will be lost to southern leagues, unlikely to return to the Northern Territory.〔 In November 1983 however, five Territory players were selected to play for Australia against the touring Japanese Industrial League champions, Toshiba, and included, Bill Fryar, Laurie Moore, Dwayne McInnes from Darwin; John Baldock from Tennant Creek and Darren Welch from Alice Springs. Since the late 1990s, the popularity and standard of baseball in the Northern Territory has steadily declined as it struggles to compete against Australian icon sports such as cricket, as well as attract juniors away from the information technology revolution such as computer games and the "hip-hop" culture. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baseball NT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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