List of German baseball champions
The list of German baseball champions includes the German champions of the German Baseball and Softball Association DBV . There is no German baseball championship for women, they play their masters in the softball variant of baseball .
The record champions are the Mannheim Tornados with a total of 11 titles, the current title holder (2018) are the Bonn Capitals , who won the title for the first time. Five different clubs from Mannheim have celebrated 24 championships to date, making the city also record holders. Other cities with several clubs as title holders are Munich and Cologne .
Post-war period until the Bundesliga was founded
Unofficial championships (1946–1951)
Since the DBV was only founded in 1951 as the "Amateur Baseball Federation Germany", the championships played up until then were all unofficial in nature. Until the foundation of the DBV, the teams were mainly company teams of the US military who played their games in an American league in Germany. The first championship of German teams took place in 1951, but also as an unofficial championship.
During this time, the Berlin Babe Ruth Flyers (named after the legendary MLB player Babe Ruth ) won five titles in a row, in 1951 they took second place.
| year | master |
|---|---|
| 1946 | Berlin Babe Ruth Flyers |
| 1947 | Berlin Babe Ruth Flyers |
| 1948 | Berlin Babe Ruth Flyers |
| 1949 | Berlin Babe Ruth Flyers |
| 1950 | Berlin Babe Ruth Flyers |
| 1951 | Baseball Club Stuttgart Phillies |
First official championships (1952–1970)
From 1952 official German baseball championships were held. The first title holder was the oldest baseball club in Germany, the Frankfurt Juniors , with an 8-1 win in Frankfurt against the Munich Panthers . The team was able to follow this success with two more titles over the next three years. From 1956 onwards the championships were dominated by various Mannheim clubs (Knights, TB Germania and VfR) with ten championships until 1970. This series could only be interrupted by teams from Munich and Darmstadt.
| year | master | Runner-up | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Frankfurt Juniors | Munich Panthers | 8: 1 |
| 1953 | Frankfurt Juniors | Munich Panthers | 3: 2 |
| 1954 | Mannheim Knights | Frankfurt Juniors | 8: 6 |
| 1955 | Frankfurt Juniors | Mannheim Knights | 7: 1 |
| 1956 | Mannheim Knights | Munich Panthers | 3: 1/2: 6/5: 3 |
| 1957 | MEV Munich | Mannheim Knights | unknown |
| 1958 | Mannheim Knights | MEV Munich | unknown |
| 1959 | Mannheim Knights | MEV Munich | unknown |
| 1960 | TB Germania Mannheim | MEV Munich | 11:10 / 9: 5 |
| 1961 | TB Germania Mannheim | unknown | unknown |
| 1962 | FC Bayern Munich | TB Germania Mannheim | 10: 6 |
| 1963 | TB Germania Mannheim | FC Bayern Munich | 7: 4 |
| 1964 | TB Germania Mannheim | VfR Mannheim | 7: 5 |
| 1965 | VfR Mannheim | TB Germania Mannheim | 2: 1 |
| 1966 | VfR Mannheim | FC Bayern Munich | |
| 1967 | Darmstadt Colt 45 | VfR Mannheim | |
| 1968 | Darmstadt Colt 45 | unknown | unknown |
| 1969 | FC Bayern Munich | unknown | unknown |
| 1970 | VfR Mannheim | FC Bayern Munich | 13: 4 |
Failure of the German championships (1971–1981)
After the first wedding of German baseball, the game came to a standstill, as no clubs within the meaning of club law had been formed from the game mergers in the previous period . Without the association's membership in the German Sports Confederation , organizational deficits also arose. At the same time, the clubs showed no particular interest in a functioning youth development, so that the clubs gradually ran out of players.
Baseball championships from 1982
Revival of German baseball, foundation of the Bundesliga and Mannheim dominance (1982–1997)
At the beginning of the 1980s, German baseball could be revived and now build on a corresponding organization. As before , the championship was dominated by the Mannheim clubs, especially the Mannheim Tornados : until 1994, with the exception of the Cologne Cardinals' title win in 1990 , the championship went exclusively to the city of squares . Between 1982 and 1997, the tornadoes achieved all of their eleven titles that have made them the record champions of German baseball to this day.
Since 1984 the championships have also been played as part of the baseball league , before the German champions were only determined on the basis of a tournament. The first organizational preparations for the establishment of the Bundesliga were shown in 1983 with a two-part qualification round for the final tournament.
| year | master | Runner-up | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Mannheim tornadoes | Mannheim amigos | no play-offs |
| 1983 | Mannheim amigos | Cologne Dodgers | unknown |
| 1984 | Mannheim tornadoes | Cologne Dodgers | 13: 3 |
| 1985 | Mannheim tornadoes | Cologne Cardinals | no play-offs |
| 1986 | Mannheim tornadoes | Cologne Dodgers | no play-offs |
| 1987 | Mannheim tornadoes | Cologne Dodgers | 6: 2/10: 3 |
| 1988 | Mannheim tornadoes | Cologne Cardinals | 18: 5/5: 1 |
| 1989 | Mannheim tornadoes | Cologne Cardinals | 6: 9 / 36:16 / 5: 4 |
| 1990 | Cologne Cardinals | Cologne Dodgers | 12: 4/4: 5/2: 1 |
| 1991 | Mannheim tornadoes | Berlin Challengers | 15: 5/8: 5 |
| 1992 | Mannheim amigos | Mannheim tornadoes | 3: 7/6: 5/11: 6 |
| 1993 | Mannheim tornadoes | Cologne Cardinals | 7: 1 |
| 1994 | Mannheim tornadoes | Lokstedt stealers | 4: 2/7: 8/16: 9 |
| 1995 | Trier Cardinals | Lokstedt stealers | 11: 2/0: 5/4: 3 |
| 1996 | Trier Cardinals | Mannheim tornadoes | 14: 5/12: 2 |
| 1997 | Mannheim tornadoes | Lokstedt stealers | 3: 4/10: 9/14: 4 |
Dominance of the north and the Paderborn Untouchables (1998-2006)
When the Cologne Dodgers won the title in 1998, the dominance of the Mannheim Tornados ended. From now on, teams from the Bundesliga North should take on the leading role in baseball Germany. Above all, the Paderborn Untouchables stood out, winning a total of six championships, five of which were in series from 2001 to 2005. In addition, the Lokstedt Stealers and the Solingen Alligators each won their first title.
| year | master | Runner-up | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Cologne Dodgers | Paderborn Untouchables | 3: 4/11: 8/8: 2 |
| 1999 | Paderborn Untouchables | Bonn Capitals | 7: 6/6: 8/5: 4 |
| 2000 | Lokstedt stealers | Cologne Dodgers | 7: 5/5: 1 |
| 2001 | Paderborn Untouchables | Cologne Dodgers | 4: 2/4: 1 |
| 2002 | Paderborn Untouchables | Cologne Dodgers | 6: 3/11: 8 |
| 2003 | Paderborn Untouchables | Cologne Dodgers | 8: 1/2: 1/2: 3/2: 5/7: 1 |
| 2004 | Paderborn Untouchables | Fürth Pirates | 5: 3/5: 4/18: 2 |
| 2005 | Paderborn Untouchables | Solingen alligators | 3: 2/1: 3/2: 0/3: 4/8: 7 |
| 2006 | Solingen alligators | Regensburg legionaries | 5: 1/8: 3/4: 0 |
Return of the South and a balanced league (2007-present)
Teams from the south have been able to win the championship since 2007, after the Mainz Athletics these were the Buchbinder Legionnaires from Regensburg in 2008 and the Heidenheim Heideköpfe in 2009. In 2011, the Buchbinder Legionaries Regensburg successfully defended their title since 2005.
Record winner
All previous winners of an official German baseball championship are listed below; in addition, the Berlin Babe Ruth Flyers have won five and the Baseball Club Stuttgart Phillies have won one more unofficial championship.
| rank | team | Number of championships | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mannheim tornadoes | 11 | 1982-1997 |
| 2 | Paderborn Untouchables | 6th | 1999-2005 |
| 3 | Bookbinders Legionaries Regensburg | 5 | 2008-2013 |
| 4th | TB Germania Mannheim | 4th | 1960-1964 |
| Mannheim Knights | 4th | 1954-1959 | |
| Heidenheim Heath Heads | 4th | 2009-2019 | |
| 7th | VfR Mannheim | 3 | 1965-1970 |
| Frankfurt Juniors | 3 | 1952-1955 | |
| 9 | Trier Cardinals | 2 | 1995-1996 |
| Mannheim amigos | 2 | 1983-1992 | |
| FC Bayern Munich | 2 | 1962-1969 | |
| Red-White Darmstadt Colt 45 | 2 | 1967-1968 | |
| Solingen alligators | 2 | 2006-2014 | |
| Mainz Athletics | 2 | 2007-2016 | |
| 15th | Bonn Capitals | 1 | 2018 |
| Lokstedt stealers | 1 | 2000 | |
| Cologne Dodgers | 1 | 1998 | |
| Cologne Cardinals | 1 | 1990 | |
| MEV Munich | 1 | 1957 |
Double winner
So far, three teams have won the championship and cup double . However, the cup only existed from 1993 to 2006.
| year | society |
|---|---|
| 1994 | Mannheim tornadoes |
| 1999 | Paderborn Untouchables |
| 2000 | Lokstedt stealers |
See also
- List of German softball champions
- List of young German baseball champions
- List of DBV Cup winners
- List of DBV Cup winners (women)
- Baseball Bundesliga
- List of members of the German Baseball Hall of Fame
Remarks
For a complete list of the German baseball champions see
- DBV archive: http://www.baseball-softball.de/bundesliga/index.php?id=00000116 .
- Archive of the Mannheim tornados: http://www.tornados.de/verein/statistiken/ .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bundesliga baseball championship table. August 24, 2018, accessed April 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Baseball in Germany 1945 to 1950: Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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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