Darrel Baldock

**Darrel Baldock**
Personal Info
Birth	September 29, 1938, Devonport, Tasmania
Recruited from	Latrobe Tasmania
Height/Weight	177cm
Playing Career¹
Debut	1961, St Kilda vs. , at
Team(s)	St Kilda 1962-1968 119 games, 236 goals
Coaching Career¹
Team(s)	St Kilda 1987-1989
¹ Statistics to end of 2005 season
Career Highlights
St Kilda Best and Fairest 1962, 1963, 1965 Premiership player 1966 Victorian state reprentative 10 times St Kilda captain 1963 - 1968 St Kilda Leading Goal kicker: 1962, '63, '64, '65 All-Australian team member

Darrel John "The Doc" Baldock (born September 29, 1938 in Devonport, Tasmania) is a former Australian rules football player who was the first (and to date, only) captain of a premiership-winning St. Kilda Football Club (in 1966) and is a Legend in the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

[edit] Football career

Baldock was recruited from Latrobe in Tasmania and was famous for his football handling skills and balance. "Doc" played at Centre half-forward and was made captain of St. Kilda's "Team of the Century" in 2002, and named as the initial "legend" in the St. Kilda Football Club Hall of Fame in 2003.

Apart from playing in the Victorian Football League with St Kilda, Baldock played 71 games for East Devonport (1955-1958, club best and fairest 1955); 158 games for LaTrobe (1959-1961 and 1969-1974); 4 games for New Norfolk (1975); as well as 15 Tasmanian state representative games and 20 North-West Football Union representative games.

Baldock was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in its inception in 1996 (as a Player) and was upgraded to Legend in June 2006.

He became a member of the House of Assembly in the Tasmanian Parliament on 22 April 1972, resigning on 30 June 1987. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party and was a minister from 1975-82.

Preceded by Neil Roberts	St Kilda captain 1963-68	Succeeded by Ian Stewart