Claus T. Helmig
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Claus T. Helmig 1989
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Second baseman , pitcher | |
Born: January 2, 1936 Frankfurt am Main , Germany |
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Died on: June 1st, 2016 | |
Suggested: right | Threw: right |
DBV tournament statistics (until the end of your career - national team only) |
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Hits | 41 |
AVG | .219 |
RBI | 22nd |
Win-loss | 3-9 |
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German Baseball Hall of Fame | |
Recorded | 2006 |
Claus T. Helmig (born January 2, 1936 in Frankfurt am Main ; † June 1, 2016 ) was a German baseball player , manager and official. He was the first German to receive a professional contract with an American farm team and was the first European to play a minor league game. He is considered one of the greatest baseball players in Germany. Helmig was the founder and department head of the two-time German champions Mannheim Amigos for 20 years and president of the Mannheim Tornados for four years . He has been a member of the German Baseball Hall of Fame since 2006 .
Career as a player
Helmig's interest in baseball developed during the American occupation of Germany . After school, he regularly watched the Americans stationed in Mannheim play. Later he played with him more and more often.
In 1953 Helmig founded the Mannheim Knights, a year later he was already part of the German national baseball team at the first European baseball championship in Antwerp . After another successful EM in 1955, American talent scouts noticed Claus Helmig and his brother Jürgen. Claus Helmig was the first German player to get a contract with a US professional franchise , the Baltimore Orioles . In 1956 he completed a game for the Paris Orioles from Paris (Texas) at Class D level in the Sooner State League.
Helmig has participated in twelve European baseball championships and two world baseball championships for the German national baseball team. In these tournaments he played a total of 67 games, 22 of which as a pitcher. Offensively, he achieved a batting average of 21.9%, 27 runs , 22 RBI and one home run . As a thrower, he had a win-loss of 3-9 and an ERA of 4.17. He won a total of seven medals at European championships, including six bronze medals and one silver medal at the 1957 home championship.
Career as a trainer and manager
Helmig founded the Mannheim Tornados in the early 1950s . From 1975 to 1978 he was president of the Mannheim Tornados.
Family and private
Claus Helmig was the father of Martin Helmig , probably the most successful German baseball player to date and brother of Jürgen C. Helmig , who is also a member of the German Baseball Hall of Fame. In addition to his career as a baseball player, he held salsa concerts with bands from Puerto Rico .
Web links
- Player statistics in the German national baseball team
- Player information and statistics from Baseball Reference (Minor League )
- Obituary of the German baseball academy
Individual evidence
- ^ A b American pastime rising in Europe. ESPN, September 13, 2011, accessed June 3, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Georg Bull: The baseball godfather passed away Claus Helmig RIP. June 2016, accessed June 14, 2016 .
- ↑ a b DBV: Claus T. Helmig. Retrieved June 14, 2016 .
- ↑ a b History of a Baseball Clan. Mittelbayerische.de, April 4, 2008, accessed June 3, 2016 .
- ↑ VfR mourns Claus Helmig - the makers of the VfR-Amigos died at the age of 80. VfR Mannheim , June 7, 2016, accessed on June 10, 2016 .
- ^ Josh Chetwynd, Baseball in Europe: A Country by Country History . 1st edition. Mcfarland & Co Inc, Jefferson, North Carolina 2008, ISBN 978-0-7864-3724-5 (English).
- ↑ Minor League Statistics Claus Helmig. baseball-reference.com, accessed June 10, 2016 .
- ↑ Statistics national team men - Statistics for Claus Helmig. DBV , accessed on June 3, 2016 .
- ↑ 1945 - How it all began in Mannheim. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 6, 2015 ; accessed on June 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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SURNAME | Helmig, Claus T. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German baseball player, manager and official |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1936 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 2016 |