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The 2004 Claxton Shield Competition

Promotions

The promotional poster released for this year's competition ..........and this page also has a link to the two posters released for the 2003 Claxton Shield, and both of these featured Brett!!!

The cover of the 2004 Claxton Shield Tournament Program .........."70 Years of Claxton"

The Draw - Sunday 18th to Saturday 24th January 2004

This page list the team names, game times, etc - each team plays five games - and then a semi-final and grand-final if they're good enough!!!

Team Rosters

The 30-player rosters for each of the six participating teams, including details of the Team Officials

----------and the final 22-player roster for the Queensland Rams

The Queensland Team

Preview of the team - and a prediction of where they will finish in this year's Claxton Shield!!! - includes some "very nice" comments about Brett - from Flintoff and Dunn's Australian Major League Baseball web site

Games Venue

Blacktown Olympic Park - Sydney, New South Wales

Click on the thumbnail to see two photos of the Stadium
plus the links below for more shots
Aerial view of the complex which shows the three fields
Photo #04 and #05 - Photo #06 and #07

"Good Luck"

Card sent to Brett - Sunday 18th January 2004

The Games

#01 - Queensland v Australian Provincials - Sunday 18th January 2004

----------Box Score and 'Play-by-Play' Report
----------Two game reports .....(Brett mentioned)

#02 - Queensland v Victoria - Monday 19th January 2004

----------Box Score and 'Play-by-Play' Report
----------Two game reports .....(Brett mentioned)

#03 - Queensland v New South Wales - Tuesday 20th January 2004

----------Box Score and 'Play-by-Play' Report
----------Game report .....(Brett mentioned)

----------PHOTOS
--------------------Brett sliding into second base

#04 - Queensland v Western Australia - Wednesday 21st January 2004

----------Box Score and 'Play-by-Play' Report
----------Game report

----------PHOTOS
--------------------Ready in the batter's box - two photos (taken from front)
--------------------Swinging - two photos (taken from front)
--------------------Swinging (taken from behind umpire)
--------------------Returning to the dugout after his at-bat
--------------------With the physio, and receiving treatment on his back injury

#05 - Queensland v South Australia - Thursday 22nd January 2004

----------Box Score and 'Play-by-Play' Report
----------Two game reports

----------PHOTOS
--------------------Brett watching the game ..........a very nice photo

Statistics
(after the five preliminary games
Does not include the Finals Series)

Queensland team - all batting, pitching, catching and fielding statistics

Tournament - "Top Ten" leaders in batting and fielding categories

Claxton Shield 2004

Team

W

L

F

A

%

QLD

4

1

48

30

.800

NSW

3

2

35

18

.600

SA

3

2

37

32

.600

WA

3

2

16

14

.600

AP

1

4

23

37

.200

VIC

1

4

20

39

.200

The Semi-Final

Queensland v Western Australia - Friday 23rd January 2004

----------Box Score and 'Play-by-Play' Report
----------Two game reports .....(Brett mentioned)

----------PHOTOS
--------------------At home plate after scoring on a Dave Nilsson home run
--------------------Backing-up a catch by the Rams centrefielder

The Grand Final

New South Wales

The Champions!!!

Queensland v New South Wales - Saturday 24th January 2004

----------Box Score and 'Play-by-Play' Report
----------Two game reports ..........and these include details of the Award winners - more details on Brett's Award below!!!

----------PHOTOS
--------------------In the batter's box and checking the signals with the third-base coach
--------------------Watching the ball sail over the rightfield wall for a NSW home run

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--The Prestigious Helms Award--
awarded to the "Player of the Series"
was taken out by Queenslander Brett Roneberg!!!

The Helms Award - photo of the medallion in it's case

Brett receiving his Award

and click here for Brett's 'official' team photo

Previous winners of The Helms Award - from 1962

"Roneberg rewarded at Australian Titles"
Click here to read this article which was published in The Cairns Post
following his return from Sydney - includes photo

and now watch the video at the bottom of this page

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Review/Report on the Claxton Shield

From "Flintoff and Dunn's Australian Major League Baseball" web site

......and Brett's return to Cairns

VIDEO

A television news sports report in which
Brett is interviewed about winning the Helms Award

He also discusses the upcoming Athens 2004 Olympics
and his return to the USA for the 2005 Minor League season

(web site notes - this video was uploaded on Friday 26th June 2009 and is in 'flv' format - the video file name
is '0video2004_02.flv' and the full address is 'http://www.ronebergcairns.com/2004onwards/0video2004_02.flv'
and the associated player, which also has been uploaded to the same directory, has the file name of 'player.swf')

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"Playball goes to our extremities"

Playball is a program conducted by the Australian Baseball Federation to encourage youngsters to play
Gareth Jones, a Development Officer with Baseball Queensland, conducted the program in Cairns
Brett was invited to attend, and is mentioned in Gareth's report which was published on Baseball Queensland's web site
Friday 13th February 2004

NOTE - this page also includes a video of a local sports news segment


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