My thoughts - you already have one team between Sydney and Melbourne (Canberra), but none between Sydney and Brisbane (unless you add the Gold Coast, which you totally should).
Between the two, Woolongong has had exactly zero major leaguers. So has Newcastle, although the closest is one from Gosford.
Newcastle is the second-biggest city in NSW. (308K). Woolongong is the third-biggest (292K). So that's no real help.
I don't know - everything keeps point to Newcastle, but I still think Woolongong. Maybe because the Newcastle Jets are an embarassment to the A-League, and the Woolongong Hawks are a solid NBL basketball team. Then there's this:
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
Baseball has been played in the region with structured competitions conducted since 1938.[citation needed] The Illawarra District Baseball Association was the governing body from this year until 1991 when the Illawarra Baseball League was created. The Illawarra Junior Baseball League was inaugurated in 1984 to accommodate a growing number of juniors that peaked at around 950 players in 1995. Eight regional clubs from four Local Government Areas play in the I B L. A regional club, the Illawarra Flame Baseball Club, fielded teams in four grades in the New South Wales Baseball League Sydney Major League from 1994 to 2007. The first grade team made the Grand Final in their inaugural season. The Club won a total of four premierships while participating. The IFBC played their inaugural games against the All Kawasaki Baseball Club in August 1994 the games being the first sporting exchange between the Sister Cities, Wollongong and Kawasaki.
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I say Woolongong.