Euro League Baseball

This article is about the league. For the clubs tournament sanctioned by the Confederation of European Baseball, see European Cup (baseball).
Euro League Baseball
Sport Baseball
Founded 2015[1]
No. of teams 10[2]
Countries Czech Republic (1 team)
France (2 teams)
Germany (3 teams)
Italy (1 team)
Netherlands (2 teams)
San Marino (1 team)
Continent Europe
Official website euroleaguebaseball.com

Euro League Baseball (ELB) is a professional baseball league in Europe founded by the European Association of Professional Baseball (EAPB). ELB plays its inaugural season in 2016 with four teams: Draci Brno, Haar Disciples, Buchbinder Legionäre Regensburg and "Amsterdam Baseball", a newly created team.[3]

Organization

EAPD holds a 60% stake in Euro League Baseball Ltd. which is the operator of the EBL and holds all naming and media rights as well as all partnership and sponsor contracts regarding Euro League Baseball. EAPB President Wim van den Hurk is the CEO of Euro League Baseball Ltd.

Current clubs

Amsterdam
Bonn
Euro League Baseball teams (: active in 2016, : currently inactive)

2016 season

The inaugural ELB season in 2016 is contested by four teams: Draci Brno, Haar Disciples, Buchbinder Legionäre Regensburg and "Amsterdam Baseball".[3] Each team plays a total of 12 regular season games (6 at home and 6 away) between 19 April and 13 September.[15]

Amsterdam Baseball

The team Amsterdam Baseball was founded with the purpose to compete in ELB, and is run by the league. The home games are played at the Sportpark Ookmeer in Amsterdam. The backbone of the team are players from Amsterdam Pirates, but there are also some previously retired players like Dirk van 't Klooster and Chris Mowday.[16]

Standings

Euro League Baseball W L Pct. GB Home Road
Regensburg Legionäre 3 1 0.750 — 2–0 1–1
Draci Brno 1 1 0.500 1 1–1 0–0
Amsterdam Baseball 0 0 -nan 1 0–0 0–0
Munich-Haar Disciples 0 2 0.000 2 0–0 0–2

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Euro League Baseball kicks off in 2016". Euro League Baseball. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Euro League Baseball Clubs". Euro League Baseball. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  3. 1 2 "ELB is set to start 4-team inaugural season". euroleaguebaseball.com. 2016-02-24.
  4. ↑ "Draci Brno Homepage". Draci Brno. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Haar Disciples Homepage". Haar Disciples. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Buchbinder Legionäre Homepage". Buchbinder Legionäre. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Amsterdam Baseball Homepage". euroleaguebaseball.com. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
  8. ↑ "L&D Amsterdam Homepage". Amsterdam Pirates. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Unipol Bologna Homepage". Fortitudo Baseball. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Bonn Capitals Homepage". Bonn Capitals. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Neptunus Homepage". Neptunus. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  12. ↑ "Rouen Huskies Homepage". Rouen Huskies. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  13. ↑ "T&A San Marino Homepage". T&A San Marino. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  14. ↑ "Templiers de Sénart Homepage". Templiers de Sénart. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  15. ↑ "Schedule 2016". euroleaguebaseball.com. 27 March 2016.
  16. ↑ "Inaugural ELB season to start coming week". yankeebiscuitfansdutchblog.mlblogs.com. 16 April 2016.

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