| Most recent season: 2018–19 Australian Baseball League season | |
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| Team Details | |
|---|---|
| League | Australian Baseball League |
| City | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Ballpark | Diamond Sports Stadium |
| Year founded | 2009 |
| Inaugural season | 2010–11 |
| Postseason | |
| ABL Championships | Nil |
| Minor premierships | 1 (2014–15) |
| Uniforms | |
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| Colours | Prussian blue Crimson Gold |
| Management | |
| Manager |  |
| Owner | Adelaide Football Club |
| General Manager | Nathan Davison |
The Adelaide Bite are a professional baseball team who plays in the Australian Baseball League and is one of the six foundation teams of the league which is owned and operated by the Adelaide Football Club as of June 2018.
Professional baseball is played in leagues throughout the world. In these leagues and associated farm teams, baseball players are selected for their talents and are paid to play for a specific team or club system.
The Australian Baseball League (ABL) is a professional baseball league in Australia. The league is governed by the Australian Baseball Federation (ABF). It uses the same name as a now-defunct competition held during the 1990s, and though it shares some history of the original league with the Claxton Shield awarded to winners of both competitions, it is considered to be a separate competition.
Contents
- Game day atmosphere
- Recent history
- Team Australia players
- Notable alumni
- Year by year results
- Current Roster
- See also
- References
- External links
The Bite have multiple alumni who have played in the MLB in following years and many players who play for Team Australia in an international level. The team is made up of up-and-coming MLB draft prospects who play minor league baseball in the USA or established Australian players. Former big-league players often play in the ABL.
Their home ballpark was the historic Norwood Oval in Norwood, South Australia which is based in the city of Adelaide, South Australia from 2009 to 2016, They however made the moved down to West Beach in the 2016/2017 season. The team name originates from the nearby hydrographic landmark, the Great Australian Bight as well as the Great White Shark which inhabits the coast of South Australia. [1]
Norwood Oval is a suburban oval in the western end of Norwood, an inner eastern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is owned by Norwood, Payneham & St Peters Council but managed by the Norwood Football Club. Though mainly used for Australian rules football, the oval has been used for a variety of other sporting and community events including baseball, soccer, rugby league and American football. It is the home ground for the Norwood Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and the primary home ground of the Adelaide Crows in AFL Women's (AFLW).
Norwood is a suburb of Adelaide, about 4 km east of the Adelaide city centre. The suburb is in the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters, the oldest South Australian local government municipality, with a city population over 34,000.
The Great Australian Bight is a large oceanic bight, or open bay, off the central and western portions of the southern coastline of mainland Australia.
The Bite are famous for their Shark Tank - the only section in Australian sport where you can sit on the actual playing surface during the play of the game.
Adelaide's first general manager was former New York Yankees infielder Pat Kelly. [2] He served as the General Manager from 2009-2013. Since the beginning of the 2013/14 season, former Adelaide Giants and Team Australia baseball player Nathan Davison took over the team as GM and CEO. [3]
The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. They are one of two major league clubs based in New York City, the other being the New York Mets of the National League. In the 1901 season, the club began play in the AL as the Baltimore Orioles. Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchased the franchise and moved it to New York City, renaming the club the New York Highlanders. The Highlanders were officially renamed the Yankees in 1913.
Patrick Franklin Kelly is a former Major League Baseball infielder who played in the major leagues for nine seasons, seven of them with the New York Yankees.
The Adelaide Giants were one of the foundation members of the now defunct Australian Baseball League (ABL). They competed in all 10 seasons but however never once made the leagues final playoff series, though they did appear in two Semi-Final series. They also have the novelty of winning the first ever ABL match against the Perth Heat in the 1989–90 season.
In three seasons under Davison the Bite have made the Australian Baseball League Championships Series twice - falling to the Perth Heat in 2015 and the Brisbane Bandits in 2016.
The Australian Baseball League was held for 10 seasons, with team numbers varying from six to nine, with eight teams competing for eight of the seasons.
In 2010 South Australian power company ETSA Utilities was announced as the major sponsor of the Adelaide Bite and that the team would be known as the Adelaide ETSA Bite. [4] After an ETSA rebrand to SA Power Networks the Bite became the "Adelaide Bite, proudly presented by SA Power Networks."
SA Power Networks is the sole electricity distributor in South Australia, delivering electricity from high voltage transmission network connection points, operated by ElectraNet, through a network of about 87,500 kilometres of powerlines, to about 830,000 residential and business customers throughout most of South Australia.
