NAME | P | W | L |
|---|---|---|---|
Solingen | 24 | 20 | 4 |
Paderborn | 24 | 18 | 6 |
Dortmund | 24 | 15 | 9 |
Hamburg | 24 | 11 | 13 |
Cologne | 24 | 7 | 17 |
Bonn | 24 | 7 | 17 |
Pulheim | 24 | 6 | 18 |
After the well-known demonstration of Baseball during the 1936 Olympics with about 120,000 people in the stands at the Olympic stadium in Berlin, the sport really stepped foot in Germany after World War II. The Baseball Club Stuttgart Phillies won the first national championship in 1951. But it took another 40 years until Baseball in Germany really took off. In 1990 about 2000 people played Baseball. This number grew fast in the following years to about 30.000 and the Baseball Bundesliga got more popular. The Mannheim Tornados won eleven championships between 1982 and 1997. A few seasons later the Paderborn Untouchables started another dynasty, winning six titles in seven years from 1999 to 2005. In recent years we have seen three different champions with Solingen Alligators (2006), Mainz Athletics (2007) and Buchbinder Legionaere Regensburg (2008).
Past Champions