Although a high percentage of participating players are successful in making local squads and Territory/ state teams.

[8] Bill Hutcheson, a Catcher, from originally Tennant Creek and later Darwin, was the only player to play in all nine Claxton Shields.

[2] Several Territorian home-grown players have gone onto successful baseball careers and these most notably include Greg Mosel,[11] Max Hardy, Jon Mellor,[12][13] Lachlan Burrows, Darren Welch,[14] Wilson Lee,[15] Sam Tibbits,[16] Dushan Ruzic[17] and Adrian Burnside.

This has created a catch 22 situation for Baseball NT whereby it understands that by developing home-grown talent, there is a good possibility these players will be lost to southern leagues, unlikely to return to the Northern Territory.

[2] In November 1983 however, Territory players were selected to play for Australia against the touring Japanese Industrial League champions, Toshiba, and included, Bill Fryar, Dwayne McInnes, and Laurie Moore from Darwin; John Baldock from Tennant Creek Evan Gordon and Darren Welch from Alice Springs.

[19] Since the late 1990s, the popularity and standard of baseball in the Northern Territory has steadily declined as it struggles to compete against Australian icon sports such as cricket, as well as attract juniors away from the information technology revolution such as computer games and the "hip-hop" culture.