The Essendon Baseball Club has beaten 41 other shortlisted sporting clubs to be awarded Australia's best club honours in the Inside Sport magazine Clubbie Awards for 2015.
The inaugural Inside Sport magazine and the Confederation of Australian Sport (CAS) Clubbie Awards were announced at the Ultimate Sport Expo at Melbourne Showground, Saturday 21 November. The Essendon Baseball Club was awarded Australia’s Best Club, winning the grand prize, a Hyundai iMax, valued at $40,000.
Inside Sport and CAS asked Australians: “What is it about your sports club that makes you so proud to wear their colours? What makes your mob special? Is yours the best sporting club in Australia?
Editor of Inside Sport, Graeme Sims, said the judges decision was tough.
“From hundreds of entries the judges’ decision on Australia’s Sports Club of the Year was tough – but we feel we have arrived at a very worthy winner. Essendon Baseball Club has been active for more than a century. They currently have 430 players and members, ranging from ages 5 to 80. Their record of playing success at all levels of the game is phenomenal.”
This award tops an amazing few years for Essendon Baseball Club. Awarded Baseball Australia’s Club of the Year 2015, recognised in the top five sporting clubs in Victoria, four premierships in a row and awarded six out of the past seven Baseball Victoria Club Championship Award Winners.
President of Essendon Baseball Club, Tony Cornish, said he could not be prouder.
“This recognition is a true reflection of all the hard work the Committee, coaches, players, WAGS, families and members have put into the club over the past 10 years. I am an extremely proud president at the moment and would like to thank all those that have contributed”.