DUTCH
BASEBALL
LUCREZIA ZANOTELLI
MICHELE SINIBALDO NOCINI
Dutch baseball
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The Dutch baseball originated in 1911, in the Dutch capital Amsterdam.
The National Federation of Dutch Baseball was founded in 1912, while
the first Dutch league baseball began racing in 1922.
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Today, the Dutch national team is the strongest in Europe.
The Netherlands won 5 times in a row (2000 to 2005) with the team of
Rotterdam in the Europe Cup of Baseball.
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The Dutch national team since 1950 has won 15 championships.
Dutch league baseball
The Dutch league baseball is the most
competitive in Europe.
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There’re eight participating teams, each of
which plays 42 games during the season.
Successively are played the playoffs and they
decreed the champion of Holland.
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The
2008 title was won by the Amsterdam Pirates.
National Baseball Team (Dutch)
The
Dutch national baseball represents the Netherlands
in international competition.
At
the moment the Netherlands is the best player of
baseball in Europe.
A
state as small as the Netherlands is the best of the
sport in Europe because the Dutch dependencies are in
the Caribbean, specifically in Aruba and the Netherlands
Antilles, where the baseball is very famous.
Baseball in the world
It's
a very popular sport in North and Central
America and East Asia.
In
Europe the baseball is not very famous,
only in some countries, for example France,
Germany, Spain and Czech Republic.