page_title: Charlie Puckett
hierarchical_section_title: Charlie Puckett
caption_attribution_description: The victorious Sheffield Shield WA team. Charlie Puckett.
context_page_description: Charles William Puckett was an Australian sportsman who excelled at both baseball and cricket. Born in Surrey, England, Puckett emigrated with his family to Adelaide, South Australia, and took up playing both sports early in life. Playing baseball as both a catcher and a pitcher, he represented South Australia in the Claxton Shield on several occasions, and was also the winner of the inaugural Capps Medal as the best player in the South Australian Baseball League. He moved to Victoria in 1937, playing a season for the Essendon Baseball Club and also playing state baseball for Victoria, before moving to Western Australia the following year to work in the publishing house of The West Australian. Considered one of the best all-round baseballers in Australia, Puckett subsequently represented Western Australia in Claxton Shield competition, having won the award for best player on three consecutive occasions, spanning the 1936, 1937, and 1938 tournaments.
  From 1940, he began to also play cricket for Western Australia, as a fast bowler. He enlisted in the Australian Army in 1942, and although not posted overseas, played little sport until the conclusion of the war.
context_section_description: Charles William Puckett (21 February 1911 – 21 January 2002) was an Australian sportsman who excelled at both baseball and cricket. Born in Surrey, England, Puckett emigrated with his family to Adelaide, South Australia, and took up playing both sports early in life. Playing baseball as both a catcher and a pitcher, he represented South Australia in the Claxton Shield on several occasions, and was also the winner of the inaugural Capps Medal as the best player in the South Australian Baseball League. He moved to Victoria in 1937, playing a season for the Essendon Baseball Club and also playing state baseball for Victoria, before moving to Western Australia the following year to work in the publishing house of The West Australian. Considered one of the best all-round baseballers in Australia, Puckett subsequently represented Western Australia in Claxton Shield competition, having won the award for best player on three consecutive occasions, spanning the 1936, 1937, and 1938 tournaments.
  From 1940, he began to also play cricket for Western Australia, as a fast bowler. He enlisted in the Australian Army in 1942, and although not posted overseas, played little sport until the conclusion of the war. On his return to competitive cricket, Puckett became one of Western Australia's leading bowlers. In the state's inaugural season in the first-class Sheffield Shield, he took 35 wickets, which remains a state record. Puckett played his last match for the state in 1953, at the age of 42, finishing his career with 158 wickets from 37 matches. Having returned to South Australia later in life, Puckett died in Adelaide in 2002, and was posthumously named an inaugural inductee in the Baseball Australia Hall of Fame in 2005. His son, Max Puckett, also played representative baseball and cricket for South Australia.
caption: Puckett in 1948
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