Braunschweig 89ers
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Braunschweig 89ers founded in 1989 / 2007 / 2012 / 2019 |
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| Full name |
| Braunschweig 89ers baseball and softball club |
| abbreviation |
| BSK |
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| Nickname (s) |
| Niners, 89ers |
| Club colors |
| Navy & white |
| Ball park (s) |
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89ers Field |
| Website : www.baseball-braunschweig.de |
The Braunschweig 89ers are a baseball club from Braunschweig in south-eastern Lower Saxony . They are a competitive sports department of SV Lindenberg von 1949 eV
General
From 2007 to 2011 the club was called SUBWAY89ers . The name is made up of the name of the main sponsor ( SUBWAY Medien GmbH or Spot up Medien) and the year of foundation and the former name of the first Braunschweig baseball team (Lindenberg 89ers). In the period from 2012 to 2019, the Braunschweig baseball players then appeared under the name Spot Up 89ers .
The name Braunschweig has been 89ers since 2019 , which is made up of the name of the hometown and the year the first baseball club was founded in Braunschweig.
Teams
The Braunschweig 89ers will take part in the league with six teams in 2020.
- 1st men's team: 2nd Bundesliga North baseball
- 2nd men's team: Association League Lower Saxony
- 3rd men's team: Landesliga Niedersachsen
- Women's softball team as a syndicate with Hanover
- Youth team as a play community with Hänigsen (age 13+)
- Student team (age up to 12 years)
history
Baseball has been played in Braunschweig since 1989. The first official team were the Hondelager Batbreakers, later Braunschweig Batbreakers. In the same year the Lindenberg 89ers were founded. In 1993 the apprenticeship (later: Braunschweig) Storks was added.
In 1995 they tried to join forces and the Braunschweig Explorers emerged from former players of the Batbreakers and the first team of the 89ers. The tripartite division of the Braunschweig baseball landscape between the Lindenberg 89ers, Braunschweig Storks and Braunschweig Explorers resulted in a great local rivalry until the early 2000s, although only the latter two were direct opponents in the actual league operations. A fourth baseball club was created in 1999, primarily through the outsourcing of the entire youth department of Braunschweig Explorers, which from the 2000 season took part in the league for the first time as Braunschweig Cops and had its home field on the sports complex at Lünischteich / Prinzenpark. Structural problems, which had their cause at least in part in the fragmented Braunschweig baseball scene, made the continuation of four parallel baseball clubs more and more difficult, so that in 2002 the decision was made to create the largest baseball merger to date and the resultant re-establishment of the Braunschweig bonehauer. Alone the name of the baseball club, Braunschweig Wettenhauer, which arose from the name of the main sponsor at the time, caused controversy in Lower Saxony baseball and ultimately had to be specifically allowed at a general meeting of the Lower Saxony base and softball association. At that time an absolute novelty, bearing the main sponsor in the club name should become the rule rather than the exception.
The former 89ers-Field in Lindenberg was chosen as the home field . In 2007, the last independent baseball club, the Braunschweig Cops, merged with the baseball players from the south of Braunschweig, now under Braunschweig SUBWAY89ers, after the main sponsor had changed. After the sponsorship contract with SUBWAY GmbH expired, the new main sponsor became Spot Up GmbH in 2012. This resulted in another name change in Spot Up 89ers .
Since the 2019 season, Braunschweig's baseball players have been competing neutrally under the name Braunschweig 89ers Base and Softball Club .
Venues
In Braunschweig, baseball has been played in various venues and ball parks since 1989. In Hondelage and teaching you used the local sports facilities, together with the football clubs. Since the beginning of the nineties, a facility at least partially reserved exclusively for baseball has been built in Lindenberg (the left and center fields were still temporarily shared between the footballers and baseball players). A similar situation arose from 1995 with the Explorers Field on the site of the former Post SV, which unfortunately was also temporarily shared with the Braunschweig Lions footballers in the right and center fields . The Cops-Field, built on the Lünischteich / Prinzenpark site at the beginning of 2000, suffered primarily from the lack of fencing, which made it almost impossible to maintain it in a park landscape.
Baseball Field (2015)
Baseball Field (2020)
89ers-Field Lindenberg
The actual baseball field in Braunschweig is and was the 89ers-Field in Lindenberg . It had been in use as a baseball facility for over 30 years and was almost completely changed in 2009 and 2020 through renovation and expansion measures. The system, which before 2009 essentially consisted of a rudimentary fence system with a simple infield (cut-outs around the bases), was converted in 2009 into a baseball system that met the criteria of the 2nd Bundesliga at the time. The entire infield was relocated 8 meters and rebuilt. All the existing fences were torn down and the specifications were rebuilt. Most recently, a three-tier natural wall was built as a grandstand with a capacity of 60 spectators. This facility served all teams of the Braunschweig 89ers as a home field until 2019.
The city of Braunschweig decided to redesign the baseball facility in Lindenberg in 2019/2020 due to tightened and changed licensing conditions with regard to promotion to the 1st Bundesliga prevented by the lack of a corresponding system. The old field was not redesigned again, but was converted back to a softball / student field. Beside this field there was space for a new ballpark, the current 89ers-Field. According to the rule, this was equipped with a grandstand with a spectator capacity of 150 permanent seats, a diamond infield, a display panel installed in the center field and a fence system.
successes
- 2003: Lower Saxony champion in the association league baseball
- 2006: Champion in the Regionalliga North-West / Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga North
- 2007: Cup winner in the Cup of the Lower Saxony Baseball and Softball Association
- 2008: Cup winner in the Cup of the Lower Saxony Baseball and Softball Association
- 2018: Championship in the 2nd Bundesliga North-East
- 2019: Schoolchildren's Championship in the Lower Saxony Winter League
- 2020: Student championship in the Lower Saxony winter league
Web links
- Official website of the Braunschweig 89ers
- Official website of the sports club Lindenberg von 1949 eV
- www.baseball.de Website of the German Baseball & Softball Association
- www.nbsv.de Website of the Lower Saxony Baseball & Softball Association
Individual evidence
- ^ League classification DBV leagues 2017 season. German Baseball and Softball Association e. V., November 7, 2016, accessed April 10, 2017 .
- ↑ League division for the 2017 season. (No longer available online.) Lower Saxony Baseball & Softball Association, January 26, 2017, archived from the original on April 10, 2017 ; Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Strike! In: SUBWAY - One Region, One Magazine. oeding magazin GmbH, accessed on August 15, 2020 .
- ↑ List of former base / softball clubs. Lower Saxony Baseball and Softball Association, March 10, 2014, accessed on August 15, 2020 .
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