Peter Sartori was a player whose career had plenty of promise, but it was ultimately a career thwarted by constant injury. Recruited from Redcliffe juniors, Sartori was only seventeen when he debuted for Swan Districts in 1981. Big things were predicted for the 195cm(6 ft 4) ruckman/forward, but, in a forerunner of things to come, he received a kidney injury halfway through the 1981  season, making him a spectator until the start of the 1983 season.Swans went on to take the flag in the 82 season, so it was an expensive and frustrating time for the young Sartori.Resuming in 1983, Sartori wasted no time in becoming a dominant player in the WANFL competition. He was a leading force in the 1983 and 84 Swan Districts premierships , and was at centre half forward for Western Australia in May 1986 in Adelaide against the South Australians, and in Melbourne when WA played Victoria in July of the same year.  Extremely agile for a big man, and possessing great football “nouce”, Sartori went on to win Swan Districts fairest and best award in 1986.Carlton, a club well served by Western Australian forwards, with Jon Dorotich, Richard Dennis, Earl Spalding, Ross Ditchburn, Peter Bosustow, and Alan Montgomery among the ranks of sandgropers to have made the trip to become a Blue, signed Sartori, and he lined up against Hawthorn in round one, 1987.Sartori went to the VFL amongst high expectations and at the top of his form. But his time in Melbourne was to be a frustrating period.  In one of football’s tragedies, injury was about to have a demoralizing effect on the young star’s career.Although he did show some of the form West Australians had witnessed, he was unable to maintain full fitness for long enough to string too many games together. He did show Carlton supporters his class on the occasions he was fully fit, such as in round 20 of 1987, when he kicked seven goals against Geelong at Kardinia Park, but injury struck again in that year’s second semi final, when a torn hamstring ruled him out of the grand final, and a premiership medallion. Sartori was runner up for Carlton’s goalkicking award in 1991, taking his tally at the Blues to 114 from 57 appearances.  After playing 57 games in five years at the Blues, Sartori went to Fitzroy in 1992 as part of the trade that brought Greg Williams to Carlton. If he thought the change of environment would change his injury fortunes, Peter was to be even more disappointed. Twenty four league games in three years later, a frustrated Peter Sartori called it quits. Including a season and a half missed in 1981 and 82, he had notched 82 games in virtually four and a half seasons with Swans, from which he kicked 119 goals.  In eight years in Victoria he played a further 81, which gives an indication of the misfortune Peter Sartori suffered with differing injury. One wonders how he would have fared with  a reasonable amount of good fortune.