The Untouchables Paderborn (full name Untouchables Paderborn Baseball Club e.V.), is a
German
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baseball
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team in the
Baseball-Bundesliga located in the city of
Paderborn
Paderborn (; Westphalian: ''Patterbuorn'', also ''Paterboärn'') is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn district. The name of the city derives from the river Pader and ''Born'', an old German term for t ...
in
Nordrhein-Westfalen
North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabi ...
. The club was established in 1990.
The Untouchables' club colors are black, green, and yellow, and the nickname is U's. The Untouchables won every Baseball-Bundesliga championship between 1999 and 2005. The Untouchables have also won the junior Baseball-Bundesliga in 2003, the youth Baseball-Bundesliga in 2002 and 2004, the men's Cup (
DBV-Pokal) in 1998 and 1999, and the
European Cup
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in 2003. The Untouchables compete in the
1st Bundesliga North division of the Baseball-Bundesliga. The team finished in second place in the Bundesliga Nord in 2010, ultimately losing in the semifinals to the ultimate champion
Regensburg Legionare. The Untouchables play at the
Ahorn-Ballpark, one of the biggest
baseball
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stadiums in
Germany
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, with a capacity of about 1,200 spectators.
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References
External links
Official Site
Baseball teams in Germany
Paderborn
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