1954 European baseball championship

The Baseball Championship in 1954 was the first European championship in baseball . It was on 26 and 27 June at the Belgian Antwerp discharged. A total of four of the five members of the newly formed Confederation of European Baseball took part in the tournament. The winner was the Italian national team.

Participating teams

The Italian, Belgian, Spanish and German national baseball teams took part in the tournament. The fifth member of the newly formed Confederation of European Baseball , France, was unable to set up its own team in time.

Game results

The 1954 European Baseball Championship was held in just two days. All four participating teams each played a game against two of the three other participants. Thus, only four games were played:

Team A	Team B	Result
Semifinals
Italy	Belgium	6 - 1
Spain	Germany	10-4
3rd place match
Belgium	Germany	12 - 5
final
Italy	Spain	7 - 4

Final score

Final placements after the EM.

Pl.	team
	Italy
	Spain
	Belgium
4th	Germany

Trivia

Due to the low level of professionalism in European baseball, all teams made a number of errors in the first EM baseball . The Spanish national team was able to achieve second place in the tournament, although they recorded 8 errors in the game against Italy. The tournament average was 10 errors per game.

Web links

• EM 1954 at baseball-reference.com

Individual evidence