The Ipswich Musketeers Baseball Club is a baseball club located in Tivoli

Tivoli, Queensland

Tivoli is a suburb of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. Tivoli State School is located within the suburb.In 1932 two of the Tivoli rugby league club's players, Hector Gee and Les Heidke were selected to play for the Australian national team.-External links:*...

, Queensland

Queensland

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, that participates in the Greater Brisbane League

Greater Brisbane League

The Greater Brisbane League or formerly the Greater Brisbane Baseball Board league is the largest baseball league in the Australian state of Queensland and covers all teams from Brisbane North, South, West, Metro as well as two Gold Coast teams. These are from age groups Little League through to...

 competition and the Brisbane West competition. It is one of the oldest clubs in Queensland and the only club existing from the old Ipswich Baseball Association.

History

Ipswich Musketeers was formed in 1954 originally to play in the Brisbane fixtures, but as the game developed in Ipswich, there were sufficient teams to run a local association. A sporting ground in Ipswich to be located at Church Street became available with Spring and Newtown streets, East Ipswich and Musketeers being successful tenderer from a large group of applicants.

After time the association waned and now Musketeers are the only team representing Ipswich in the Brisbane competition. Over years however, Ipswich has won the premiership in every grade, including club championship. A-Grade premierships include 1967, 1985, 1986, 1987.

The first Queensland representatives were Ken Hogan and Bill Castley and first Australian representative Max Cummins.

Current season

In 2009, Ipswich qualified for the finals, but got knocked out in the semi final stage in two games by eventual runners up, Runcorn Indians

Runcorn Indians

The Indians Baseball Club is a baseball club that participates in the Greater Brisbane League competition and the Brisbane South competition. It is one of the original clubs in Australia and several clubs have been offshoots of it, including Redlands Baseball Club and the Carina Redsox.The club...

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External links

• Musketeers Website
• ABF Profile
• Suthers full of surprises Ipswich News
• Errors hurt Musketeers Ipswich News
• Mark 'The Ear' Oberhardt gives the rundown on sport Courier Mail