The Fitzroy Baseball Club, known as the Fitzroy Lions, is a baseball club founded in 1889 to represent the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria. The club was a founding member of the Victorian Baseball League, Victoria's first organised baseball competition. Fitzroy has won 16 Division 1 championships and currently has seven senior men's teams, one women's team and a masters team competing in the Baseball Victoria Summer League, as well as junior sides representing the club at every age level.
1889 Fitzroy Lions, back row T Kerrigan, T Lederman, R Simmons, W Park, A Fletcher centre row J McCurdy, G Lederman, R Mitchell, A Mc Neill, G Beecham, J Cantwell front row P Fairway
Ponsford (front row, left) wearing the Big V of the Victorian baseball team at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1919. His future Test cricket teammate, Jack Ryder is seated directly behind him.
Fitzroy is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km (1.9 mi) north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Yarra local government area. Fitzroy recorded a population of 10,431 at the 2021 census.
The Fitzroy skyline, with the Fitzroy Town Hall visible on the far left
Looking south down Brunswick Street in 1906
Fitzroy Memorial Rotunda, built 1925 in honour of Fitzroy casualties of World War I
Victoria Parade, Fitzroy, 1935
