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Dutch Major League
The Honkbal Hoofdklasse (Dutch language, Dutch for ''Major League Baseball'') is the highest level of professional baseball in the Baseball in the Netherlands, Netherlands. It is an eight-team sports league, league that plays a 42-game schedule and is overseen by the Royal Netherlands Baseball and Softball Federation (KNBSB). Games are played principally on weekends. The season runs from April to September and is followed by the playoffs among the four best teams, which culminates in the Holland Series. Both of the playoff rounds are best-of-five. The league follows a promotion and relegation system with the Honkbal Eerste klasse, Eerste klasse so that the composition of both levels changes from year to year. Many of the official team nicknames contain the name of the club's Sponsor (commercial), corporate sponsor. The two best teams participate in the European Cup (baseball), European Cup. History The Honkbal Hoofdklasse has been the highest level of competitive baseball in th ...
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Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on the batting team, called the batter, tries to hit with a bat. The objective of the offensive team (batting team) is to hit the ball into the field of play, away from the other team's players, allowing its players to run the bases, having them advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called " runs". The objective of the defensive team (referred to as the fielding team) is to prevent batters from becoming runners, and to prevent runners' advance around the bases. A run is scored when a runner legally advances around the bases in order and touches home plate (the place where the player started as a batter). The principal objective of the batting team is to have a ...
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Honkbal Overgangsklasse
The Honkbal Overgangsklasse (Dutch language, Dutch for ''Baseball Transition League'') is the second highest level of professional baseball in the Baseball in the Netherlands, Netherlands. It is a twelve-team sports league, league that plays a 22-game schedule followed by two separate 15-game schedules for the best six teams and the weakest six teams, and is overseen by the Royal Netherlands Baseball and Softball Federation, KNBSB. Games are played principally on weekends. The season runs from April to August and is followed by a promotion and relegation system with the highest level of baseball in the Netherlands, the Honkbal Hoofdklasse, so that the composition of the top level may change from year to year. 2011 season The 2011 Honkbal Overgangsklasse season began April 8, 2011. 22-game schedule 15-game schedule Top six teams The 2011 Honkbal Overgangsklasse 1–6 (best teams) season began June 25, 2011 and ended September 4, 2011. Bottom six teams The 2011 Honkbal Overgan ...
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DSS Haarlem
DSS is a baseball and softball club based in Haarlem, the Netherlands. The 2,500 capacity Pim Mulier Stadium is their home venue. Since 2020 DSS has fielded a combined team with fellow Haarlem baseball club Kinheim Kinheim is a baseball and softball team based in Haarlem, the Netherlands. The title sponsor of the club is currently ''Corendon'' so that the official name of the team is Corendon Kinheim. Kinheim baseball team plays in the Honkbal Hoofdklass .... Kinheim was unable to qualify for the Hoofdklasse after being relegated in 2019, and DSS was unable to participate in the top league due to financial difficulties. The fusion enabled the combined clubs to continue fielding a team from Haarlem in the Hoofdklasse.van Zon, Rogier.'Kinheim en DSS hebben elkaar nu nodig.' ''NL Honkbalsite''. 11 February 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2021. https://www.honkbalsite.com/2020/02/11/kinheim-en-dss-hebben-elkaar-nu-nodig/ (Dutch) References External linksOfficial DSS site Sports cl ...
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Pioniers
Pioniers is a baseball and softball team based in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands. The club is currently sponsored by Raamsdonkveer-based construction company ''Vaessen BV'' and the team is officially known as the Vaessen Pioniers. Pioniers baseball team plays in the Honkbal Hoofdklasse, the top level of professional baseball in the Netherlands. The club's most successful year was 1997 they reached the Holland Series for the first time in the club's history by beating reigning champions DOOR Neptunus in the play-offs. In the Holland Series they claimed a 3-2 victory over Mr. Cocker HCAW, making them Dutch champions. In 2006 Pioniers finished third in the Honkbal Hoofdklasse and were just like in 1997 able to upset Neptunus in the play-offs, gaining themselves entrance to the 2006 Holland Series.2006 Holland Series< ...
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SV ADO
SV ADO was a baseball club based in The Hague, the Netherlands. The club's top men's team was a regular participant in the Honkbal Hoofdklasse, the highest level of Dutch baseball. The organization dissolved itself in 2015 after declaring bankruptcy. The club had seen years of declining membership and was facing a € The euro sign () is the currency sign used for the euro, the official currency of the eurozone and unilaterally adopted by Kosovo and Montenegro. The design was presented to the public by the European Commission on 12 December 1996. It consists o ...40,000 budget shortfall entering the 2015 season."AdoLakers opgeheven, honkbalclub weg uit hoofdklasse." ''Omroep West''. February 4, 2020. Retrieved May 3, 2021. https://www.omroepwest.nl/nieuws/2773521/AdoLakers-opgeheven-honkbalclub-weg-uit-hoofdklasse (Dutch) 2011 roster References External linksOfficial site of SV ADO (Dutch) Baseball teams in the Netherlands Sports clubs in The Hague {{Netherlands- ...
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Amstel Tijgers
Amsterdam Tigers are an ice hockey team in Amsterdam, Netherlands, playing in the First Division. History The Tigers existed in various guises from their foundation in 1963 until 2010 when the professional team folded, leaving only the amateur and junior teams. The team reformed in time for the 2014-15 Eerste Divisie season. The following season they moved up to the newly formed BeNe League, where they remained until the 2019-20 season. Ahead of the 2019-20 BeNe Season, the Tigers announced they would be leaving the league and joining the Dutch First Division. Upon reformation, the team was known as Amstel Tijgers Amsterdam before changing in 2017 to its present name. The amateur and junior teams have kept the Tijgers moniker. Over the years the names of the team have included: Amsterdam Bulldogs, Boretti Tigers, Amsterdam G's and Al Capone Flames. Eredivisie season results ''Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, OTW = Overtime Wins, OTL = Overtime Losses, L = Losses, GF = G ...
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AHC Quick
AHC Quick (Amsterdamsche Honkbal Club Quick), commonly known as Quick Amsterdam, is a baseball and softball club based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Founded in 1913, it is the oldest baseball club in Europe still in existence. Today the club operates four men's baseball teams playing in the second, third and fourth divisions of Dutch baseball. However, the club's top men's baseball team has previously played in the Honkbal Hoofdklasse, winning the Holland Series three times between 1922 and 1935. The club's is the direct successor of Hercules, one of the three original members of the Dutch Baseball Association. The club organizes annual reunions for former club members during the competition season. As from 2011 a committee is installed to prepare and organize festivities for the 100-year anniversary starting March 1, 2013. This will include a reception and several events throughout the year. The club also has three men's softball team playing in the third division and four wo ...
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Ajax HVA
Ajax Honkbalvereniging Amsterdam ( en, Ajax Baseball Club Amsterdam) (), also referred to as Ajax HVA, Ajax Amsterdam or simply Ajax (after the legendary Greek hero), was a Dutch professional baseball club based in Amsterdam. The club were founding members of the Dutch Hoofdklasse, where they competed since the league's inception in 1922 until the club folded in 1972, having won the league title a total four times. The team was associated with acclaimed Dutch football club AFC Ajax, in their attempt to expand into baseball, having spent 50 years at the top flight of professional baseball in the Netherlands. History As founding members of the Dutch Hoofdklasse in 1922, Amsterdam's well-known football club AFC Ajax fielded a baseball team in the highest level of professional baseball in the Netherlands, playing their home matches at the stadium of OVVO on the Kruislaan in Amsterdam-Oost. Famous former players include Marco Nagelkerken, Ruben Leysner, Peter Hendriks, Boy Balinge, ...
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Kinheim
Kinheim is a baseball and softball team based in Haarlem, the Netherlands. The title sponsor of the club is currently ''Corendon'' so that the official name of the team is Corendon Kinheim. Kinheim baseball team plays in the Honkbal Hoofdklasse, the top level of professional baseball in the Netherlands. The club's most successful period was in the 1990s when they reached the Holland Series five consecutive times (1992–1996). They lost four of their Holland Series entries, but managed to become Dutch champions in 1994 when beating DOOR Neptunus 3–2. In 2006 Kinheim won the regular Honkbal Hoofdklasse league and the KNBSB-Beker, which is the national cup trophy. By beating Mr. Cocker HCAW in the play-offs they gained themselves entrance to the 2006 Holland Series.2006 Holland Series
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Amsterdam Pirates
Amsterdam Pirates is a Dutch baseball and softball organization based in Amsterdam. It was founded as an expansion of the football club SV Rap on 17 February 1959 by Loek Loevendie. In the first years it was known as the RAP Pirates, but after a few years the club changed its name according to American tradition (first city name, then franchise name) and became the Amsterdam Pirates. The Pirates play at the Pirates Playground on Sportpark Ookmeer in Osdorp, in the west of Amsterdam. This stadium was one of the hosts of the 2007 European Softball Championship. The club celebrated a Dutch Championship in 1987 and 1990. The next few years it was at the lower end of the League, which is dominated by Neptunus from Rotterdam. In earlier years there was another team in Amsterdam, called Amstel Tijgers (Tigers) and Association football, football club AFC Ajax also played baseball, and has been champions a number of times. The club is the second largest baseball club of the Netherlands (a ...
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Sparta-Feyenoord
Sparta-Feyenoord is a defunct baseball team in Honkbal Hoofdklasse, the Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ... professional baseball league. Facing relegation after the 2012 season, the club went bankrupt and folded. 2011 roster References External linksOfficial site of Sparta-Feyenoord (Dutch) Defunct baseball teams in the Netherlands Defunct sports clubs and teams in the Netherlands {{Europe-baseball-team-stub ...
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Blauw-Wit Amsterdam
FC Blauw-Wit Amsterdam ( en, Blue-White) was a Dutch football club from Amsterdam. The name referred to the colours of their uniform, blue and white. History Founded on 10 May 1902 as a local club in the Kinkerbuurt area of Amsterdam, from 1928 it started to play its home matches in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam. The club entered professional football in the Netherlands in 1954. In 1972 the club merged with Volewijckers and DWS to form FC Amsterdam. Blauw-Wit continued as an amateur club, that still exists today. Originally named ''VICTORIA!'' the club merged with another neighborhood club ''Holland'' from which point the combined clubs took on the name Blauw-Wit and were permitted into the Derde Klasse by the NVB. From 1914 until 1928 Blauw-Wit played in the Old Stadion, before moving to the Olympic Stadium. The club championed the Eerste Klasse KNVB West I seven times (then the highest class in Dutch football). The club joined the professional football league Eredivisie f ...
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