LEONARD Joel is honoured to present the personal collection of Australian sporting legend Ron Barassi.
For more than 60 years, Ron Barassi has been a key sporting and cultural figure, famous for his groundbreaking career in Australian Rules football. This is a collection of national significance offering a unique glimpse into a bygone football era and the inquisitive mind of an extraordinary player and revolutionary coach.
Ron’s father, Ronald James Barassi wore No. 31 in a premiership with the Melbourne Football Club before being killed at Tobruk, in World War 2.
The club successfully overcame the zoning system of the time to allow Ron to follow in his father’s footsteps.
In 1953, Ron started his senior football career, spending the next twelve years with the Demons. He played in six premierships with the club. The No. 31 became synonymous with courage, determination and inspiration.
In an unprecedented move which shocked the football world, Barassi left Melbourne for Carlton in 1965 to play and coach.
Barassi was the coach of two premierships at Carlton and two at North Melbourne – including their first ever.
He laid the foundations of future success at Melbourne and later the Sydney Swans.
Throughout his coaching career, Barassi was an innovator, constantly seeking a winning edge, a new coaching method, a different perspective.
This is evident through his extensive research of international coaching methods and techniques in many sports.
Throughout his life, Ron Barassi collected enthusiastically and broadly.
The various items clearly indicate interests stretching far beyond football into various other sports, history, psychology and business.
Each aspect of his career and personal interests are represented through the memorabilia, awards and iconic personal mementos spanning his entire life.
The Ron Barassi Collection will be auctioned at the Melbourne Town Hall on 4 of September, 2016.
“I have enjoyed the journey behind the awards, the mementos, the historic pieces, the souvenirs and curiosities. I think now is a good time to share these treasures with the collecting community.
I hope that in the caring hands of public institutions (sporting museums, libraries) and private collectors these items will bring pleasure to a wide public and be best preserved for the social and historic interest of future generations.
And I’m glad my family will have a permanent record of my collection without the responsibility.” – Ron Barassi
DETAILS
AUCTION: The Ron Barassi Collection
DATE: Sunday, 4 September, 2pm
AUCTION LOCATION: The Swanston Room, Melbourne Town Hall
PUBLIC VIEWING OF THE RON BARASSI COLLECTION
Melbourne
Location: Leonard Joel, 333 Malvern Rd, South Yarra VIC
31 August, 9am-8pm
1-2 September, 10am-4pm
3 September, 10am-5pm
4 September, 10am-1.30pm
Sydney (Highlights viewing)
Location: Leonard Joel, 39 Queen St, Woollahra NSW
27-28 August, 10am-4pm
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