When a group of gentlemen gathered together for a meeting at the Essendon Cricket, Bowls and Tennis Club on the 24th April, 1893 for the purpose of forming a baseball club, you can be pretty confident that the last thing on their minds at the time, was the possibility of that very same club, being in existence more than 100 years later.
Thanks to the efforts of a large number of people over the ensuing 131 years, that club is still in existence, and prospers today under the name of ‘The Essendon Baseball Club’ – our Club!
When you consider that the very game of baseball was first played in the United States just 47 years earlier. The historical significance of a Club being 131 years old really hits home.
These 131 years have seen the world undergo massive changes, but one constant in this continually changing environment has been the Essendon Baseball Club. Our colours have changed from blue and white to red and black, our fees have increased from Two shillings and sixpence per season to Three hundred plus dollars, and our once wooden bats and then became made of aluminium and now back to wood, (both are still being used depending on grade), but through it, all our Club has survived. Survived and prospered to the extent that today, in Summer, it boasts 8 senior sides, 2 masters teams, 3 Women’s Teams and 10 underage junior sides U12-U18, and a ‘tee ball’ competition.
Our Premierships
Senior Premierships
Premiers 1918, 1946, 1955, 1956, 1961, 1965, 1966, 1988/89, 1994/95, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2020/21
Womens Premierships
Premiers 2018/19
