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The Hicks-Sawyer Minstrel Baseball Club

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The Hicks-Sawyer Minstrel Baseball Club

The Hicks-Sawyer Minstrels were a troupe of African-American performers who toured Australia and New Zealand from 1888 to 1890. A group of talented baseball players among them made up the Hicks-Sawyer Baseball Club, which played games against local teams to promote both the troupe and the sport. This article about the Hicks-Sawyer Baseball Club appeared in the Evening Post on 8 November 1888.

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Reference: Evening Post, 8 November 1888, p. 2

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Tony Smith and David Green, Softball and baseball – Baseball in New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/39660/the-hicks-sawyer-minstrel-baseball-club (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Tony Smith and David Green, published 30 November 2012, updated 1 July 2015.