Amsterdam Pirates is a baseball and softball team in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was founded as an expansion of the football club S.V. RAP. In the first years it was known as the RAP Pirates, but after a few years the club changed its name according to American tradition and became the Amsterdam Pirates.
The Honkbal Hoofdklasse is the highest level of professional baseball in the Netherlands. It is an eight-team league that plays a 42-game schedule and is overseen by the Royal Netherlands Baseball and Softball Federation (KNBSB).
Kinheim is a baseball and softball team based in Haarlem, the Netherlands. The title sponsor of the club is currently Corendon so that the official name of the team is Corendon Kinheim. They are current Dutch champions.
Pioniers is a baseball and softball team based in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands. The club is currently sponsored by Raamsdonkveer-based construction company Vaessen BV and the team is officially known as the Vaessen Pioniers.
The Holland Series has been the annual championship series of the highest level of professional baseball in the Netherlands since 1987, concluding the postseason of Honkbal Hoofdklasse. It is played between the two winners of the playoffs.
Rob "Robbie" Cordemans is a Dutch baseball player. He bats and throws righthanded. Cordemans is best known for representing the Dutch national team at the Olympics and other international competitions.
Diegomar Raymundo "Diego" Markwell is a Dutch baseball player.
Marek Leszek Deska is a Polish-Canadian professional baseball player who began his baseball career in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and as of 2007, is playing in the Dutch Major League for Mediamonks RCH. Upon his first start, which was against Instant Holland Almere '90 on May 20, 2007, Deska became the first player in history to play in the highest Dutch league with a Polish passport. Deska is a right-handed pitcher and started his professional baseball career with the Toronto Maple Leafs of the Intercounty Major Baseball League.
David Franciscus Johan Bergman is a Dutch baseball player who currently plays for Kinheim of the Honkbal Hoofdklasse baseball league.
Danny Rombley is a Dutch baseball player who currently plays for the Amsterdam Pirates. He also played six years in Minor League Baseball.
Hainley Charles Statia is a Dutch former minor league baseball player and a minor league coach in the Milwaukee Brewers organization.
AHC Quick, commonly known as Quick Amsterdam, is a baseball and softball club based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Founded in 1913, it is one of the oldest baseball clubs in Europe still in existence. Today the club operates four men's baseball teams playing in the third, fourth and fifth divisions of Dutch baseball. However, the club's top men's baseball team has previously played in the Honkbal Hoofdklasse, winning the Holland Series three times between 1922 and 1935. The club's is the direct successor of Hercules, one of the three original members of the Dutch Baseball Association.
The Honkbal Rookie League is a professional baseball league in the Netherlands for rookies from the teams in the Honkbal Hoofdklasse. It is an eight-team league that plays a 42-game schedule. The season runs from April to September and is not followed by a promotion and relegation system.
The Honkbal Overgangsklasse is the second highest level of professional baseball in the Netherlands. It is a twelve-team league that plays a 22-game schedule followed by two separate 15-game schedules for the best six teams and the weakest six teams, and is overseen by the KNBSB. Games are played principally on weekends. The season runs from April to August and is followed by a promotion and relegation system with the highest level of baseball in the Netherlands, the Honkbal Hoofdklasse, so that the composition of the top level may change from year to year.
Berry van Driel is a Dutch professional baseball player. A pitcher, he has pitched in the Netherlands for the Netherlands national baseball team.
Randolph F. Oduber is a professional baseball outfielder who is currently with the Lincoln Saltdogs of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball.
Orlando Yntema Peña is a Dutch professional baseball pitcher, for the UVV Utrecht in the Dutch Baseball League.
Kevin Heijstek is a Dutch professional baseball pitcher, for Amsterdam Pirates in the Dutch Baseball League. He had previously played for DOOR Neptunus since 2005, before joining Amsterdam for 2013.
Dashenko Adriano Ricardo is a Dutch professional baseball catcher for the Sioux Falls Canaries of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball.
Dwayne Kemp is a Dutch baseball player who played for the Netherlands national baseball team at the 2011 Baseball World Cup, 2010 European Baseball Championship, 2011 Baseball World Cup, 2013 World Port Tournament, 2015 World Port Tournament, 2016 Haarlem Baseball Week, 2016 France International Baseball Tournament, and the 2016 European Baseball Championship.
