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Website updated 05 APR 10
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1962 saw the club having to spend money to provide bases and backstops which had previously been supplied by Auckland Softball. Uniform tops only were provided, with players having to supply the rest. Nine teams were fielded. 6 men’s teams – Major B, Second Grade, Fourth Grade, Sixth Grade (2 teams), and Eighth Grade and 3 women’s teams – Second, Third and Eighth Grade.
The Eighth Grade boys (pictured below) had a great season losing only one game and winning the Championship, Knock Out and Champion of Champions Kerry Carruthers became the official club mascot
Subs ranged from 5 shillings (50c) and one shilling (10c) a week for midgets to 5 pounds ($10) plus 2/6 (25c) per week for Major B and Second Grade. Prizegiving cost 10 shillings ($1) a double and 5/- (50c) single. Hall hire was 3 pounds 10 shillings ($7) while the live band cost 6 pounds ($12)
Records for the next few years range from sketchy to non-existent but the Sixth Grade Ladies won their championship in 1965 and the following year mowing equipment was purchased to a budget of $400. By the 1967/68 season, Metro had ten teams, four senior men’s and two senior women’s plus three junior boys and one junior girls side.
Don Williams was appointed selector/coach for the ASA Senior Schoolgirls.
1968/69 saw the Te Atatu men’s teams from seventh grade up incorporated into the club who now fielded 4 men’s and 2 women’s senior sides and 7 junior boys and one junior girls teams.
By 1970/71, Metro had both men’s and women’s teams in the top ASA competitons and ten other sides.
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