Peter Baulderstone thinks The Ashes are a nostalgia act we watch out of habit – like much modern professional sport and entertainment. Is Test Cricket not what it’s cracked up to be – or is PB?
The Ashes – Third Test, Adelaide: The Cinders – The Ashes as nostalgia band?
December 22, 2025 by 6 Comments
Almanac Life: AFL Lost Boys
February 6, 2025 by 9 Comments
Peter Baulderstone reflects on recent football sudden deaths and how the lessons learned working and living through mental health struggles can be adapted to prevent further tragedies. He has some suggestions about what can be put in place to help.
Almanac Cricket: India and Australia – Diverging Paths
November 26, 2024 by 12 Comments
Peter Baulderstone suggests Australia’s cricketing demise and India’s dominance in the First Test says a lot about the energy and direction of both countries economically and politically. As ever sport can be seen as an indicator for what we value and where we are headed.
Almanac Footy: WAFL Preliminary Final Preview – Swan River
September 14, 2024 by 7 Comments
Do or die for Peter Baulderstone’s Swan Districts in Sunday’s WAFL Preliminary Final against the AFL interlopers from Peel via Fremantle Dockers.
Almanac Footy: WAFL Week 2 Finals Preview – Swan Lake
September 6, 2024 by 4 Comments
Swan Districts upset Dockers affiliate Peel last week and now play East Perth for a Grand Final place. In the other final the roaring Lions take on a talented but underperforming Peel for a Preliminary Final spot. Spring sun is creeping out and the weekend’s footy in Perth should be a belter.
Almanac Footy: WAFL Finals Preview – Swan Song
August 30, 2024 by 14 Comments
Peter Baulderstone previews the first round of WAFL finals and declares his undying support for local footy and Swan Districts. Go the Black Ducks!
Almanac Obituary – Vale John Todd: The Godfather of WA Football
June 5, 2024 by 11 Comments
Peter Baulderstone celebrates the life of John Todd – WA football legend; 6x premiership coach at 3 clubs; Sandover Medallist; All Australian player and Australian Football Hall of Fame member. In an era where little travelled east across the Nullarbor other than star footballers and mining royalties, Todd was the Barassi of WA football for 50 years.
Almanac Books: Best Sports Books I Read This Year
January 1, 2024 by 8 Comments
Peter Baulderstone nominates and reviews the best sports books he read in 2023. Add your own suggestions for Almanacker’s reading lists.
Almanac Golf: Phil Mickelson and Gambling Addiction
August 15, 2023 by 5 Comments
Although golfer Phil Mickelson has admitted to gambling addiction Peter Baulderstone believes the emotional harm is often worse than the financial damage. Acknowledging the hurt his gambling has caused to those close to him would help other gamblers and their families understand the damage and the steps to recovery.
Almanac Music – Springsteen in Europe 2023: Pilgrimage (Part 1: Music)
July 27, 2023 by 8 Comments
Peter Baulderstone and Mary the Avenging Eagle report from a European pilgrimage to see their musical hero Bruce Springsteen pay tribute to his musical heroes.
Almanac Cricket: Bazball, Brexit and Buffoons
July 6, 2023 by 16 Comments
In the aftermath of the Lord’s Test – Peter Baulderstone opines on the historical origins of Bazball. Franco-Prussian War of 1870 anyone? He thinks the reaction of Lord’s members says more about faded glory and a culture of entitlement than anything that happened on the field.
Almanac Golf: Send Lawyers, Golf and Money – the Shits have Hit the Fans
June 7, 2023 by 4 Comments
Peter Baulderstone explains how the shotgun marriage between the US PGA and Saudi LIV golf tours tells us more about the influence of big corporate money and geopolitical power than sport. Think “Succession”, not Wide World of Sport.
Comment: Gold, Gold, Gold for Australia – in Virtue Signalling
October 26, 2022 by 3 Comments
Peter Baulderstone thinks the actions of recent elite sportspeople in protesting against certain sponsors suggests a lack of sophistication in their understanding of the whole situation. In a pluralist society, whose views prevail?
Almanac Life: How Johnny Famechon Saved Me
August 9, 2022 by 14 Comments
Last week’s passing of boxing legend and World Featherweight Champion Johnny Famechon reminds Peter Baulderstone of lessons learned watching Fammo and how they saved him from a delicate situation in high school.
Almanac Sport: Footy Clubs and Community – The International Day of People with Disabilities
December 3, 2021 by 4 Comments
Peter Baulderstone went to a breakfast for the International Day of People with Disabilities at his WAFL club Swan Districts. The powerful story of the speakers and the club’s wheelchair footy team convinced him that football clubs play a vital community role well beyond September.
Almanac Golf: Australia’s Greatest Golfer – Walter J Travis?
November 18, 2021 by 3 Comments
Many a treasure can be discovered on a billiard room’s library shelves in a historic property as Peter Baulderstone recently found on a trip to the Clare Valley in SA. This chance encounter changed Peter’s opinion of who is Australia’s greatest golfer.
Almanac Footy: Life in Ten Grand Finals
September 22, 2021 by 4 Comments
Peter Baulderstone shares Grand Final memories. Not just the winning or the losing. It’s the time, the place, the people we shared it with that sticks with us. What are your Grand Final memories beyond the result?
Round 13 – West Coast v Richmond: Ifs, Buts and Flags
June 15, 2021 by 12 Comments
Peter Baulderstone relished his Eagles thrilling win over the gallant Tigers. He thinks both teams are serious premiership contenders again IF they can get their best players on the field in September.
Almanac Golf: PGA Golf Championship Preview and the Rise of Quality Independent Journalism
May 22, 2021 by 1 Comment
Peter Baulderstone offers some thoughts on the US PGA, one of the four majors, which is being played at Kiawah Island in South Carolina, and also offers some thoughts on the state of fresh golf journalism.
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