Kōrero: Softball and baseball

ISF World Softball Championship parade, 1976

ISF World Softball Championship parade, 1976

A crowd cheers the South African team as the participants in the 1976 ISF (International Softball Federation) Men's World Softball Championship march through Lower Hutt, the tournament's host city (top). There were mixed reactions to the South African presence. At the tournament itself around 2,000 anti-apartheid protesters gathered (bottom).

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Evening Post Collection (PAColl-0614)
Reference: 1/4-028230-F (top); 1/4-28236-F (bottom)

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Tony Smith and David Green, 'Softball and baseball - New Zealand softball on the world stage', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/39639/isf-world-softball-championship-parade-1976 (accessed 19 April 2024)

He kōrero nā Tony Smith and David Green, i tāngia i te 5 Sep 2013, updated 1 Jul 2015