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Table of Contents
CEB Information ......................................................................................................... 4
   CEB Directory 2019 ................................................................................................ 5
   Presidential Report 2019......................................................................................... 7
   Marketing and Media Commission Report 2019 ..................................................... 8
   Umpire Commission Report 2019 ......................................................................... 16
   Scorers Commission Report 2019 ........................................................................ 18
CEB Competitions 2019 ........................................................................................... 20
   Club Team Competitions 2019.............................................................................. 21
   National Team Competitions 2019 ........................................................................ 23
WBSC Competitions 2019 ........................................................................................ 28
CEB Historical Data 2019 ......................................................................................... 30
   Overview Registered Members 2014-2019 ........................................................... 31
   History Final Standings – European Championships Seniors ............................... 32
   History Final Standings – European Championships Juniors................................ 32
   History Final Standings – European Championships Cadets ................................ 33
   History Final Standings – European Championships Juveniles ............................ 34
CEB Member Countries 2019 ................................................................................... 35
   Austria ................................................................................................................... 36
   Belarus .................................................................................................................. 36
   Belgium ................................................................................................................. 37
   .............................................................................................................................. 37
   Bulgaria ................................................................................................................. 37
   .............................................................................................................................. 38
   Croatia .................................................................................................................. 38
   Cyprus................................................................................................................... 38
   Czech Republic ..................................................................................................... 39
   Denmark ............................................................................................................... 39
   Estonia .................................................................................................................. 40
   Finland .................................................................................................................. 40
   France ................................................................................................................... 41
   Georgia ................................................................................................................. 41
   Germany ............................................................................................................... 42
   Great Britain .......................................................................................................... 42
   Greece .................................................................................................................. 43
   Hungary ................................................................................................................ 43

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    Iceland (provisional) .............................................................................................. 44
    Ireland ................................................................................................................... 44
    Israel ..................................................................................................................... 45
    Italy ....................................................................................................................... 45
    Latvia .................................................................................................................... 46
    Lithuania ............................................................................................................... 46
    Malta ..................................................................................................................... 47
    Moldova ................................................................................................................ 47
    Netherlands........................................................................................................... 48
    Norway .................................................................................................................. 48
    Poland ................................................................................................................... 49
    Portugal................................................................................................................. 49
    Romania................................................................................................................ 50
    Russia ................................................................................................................... 50
    San Marino............................................................................................................ 51
    Serbia.................................................................................................................... 51
    Slovakia ................................................................................................................ 52
    Slovenia ................................................................................................................ 52
    Spain ..................................................................................................................... 53
    Sweden ................................................................................................................. 53
    Switzerland ........................................................................................................... 54
    Turkey ................................................................................................................... 54
    Ukraine.................................................................................................................. 55

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CEB Directory 2019

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

President               Didier Seminet            seminet@baseballeurope.com
1st Vice President      Petr Ditrich              ditrich@baseballeurope.com
2nd Vice President      Jürgen Elsishans          elsishans@baseballeurope.com
3rd Vice President      Rainer Husty              husty@baseballeurope.com
Secretary General       Krunoslav Karin           karin@baseballeurope.com
Treasurer               René Laforce              laforce@baseballeurope.com
Member                  Roderick Balk             balk@baseballeurope.com
Member                  Marco Mannucci            mannucci@baseballeurope.com
Member                  Oleg Boyko                boyko@baseballeurope.com

TECHNICAL COMMISSION

Chairman-until June 8   Jürgen Elsishans          elsishans@baseballeurope.com
Chairman-from Aug 26    Ludo Peeters              peeters@baseballeurope.com
Member                  Frantisek Bunta           bunta@baseballeurope.com
Member                  Rainer Krankl             krankl@baseballeurope.com
Member                  Jan Kuipers               kuipers@baseballeurope.com
Member                  Stephen Lesfargues        lesfargues@baseballeurope.com
Member                  Jaroslav Mika             mika@baseballeurope.com
Member                  Aleksandar Horvatić       horvatic@baseballeurope.com

MARKETING & MEDIA COMMISSION

Chairman                Rainer Husty              media@baseballeurope.com
Member                  François Collet           collet@baseballeurope.com
Member                  Johannes Godler           godler@baseballeurope.com
Member                  Philipp Würfel            wuerfel@baseball-softball.de

COMMUNICATION COMMISSION

Chairman                François Collet           collet@baseballeurope.com

ANTI-DOPING DELEGATE

Chairman                Peter Ström               strom@baseballeurope.com

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LEGAL COMMISSION

Chairman            Lars Sundin          sundin@baseballeurope.com
Member              Kelly Laforce        laforce.kelly@gmail.com
Member              Vladimír Richter     vladimir@richter.cz

UMPIRE COMMISSION

Chairman            Fred van Groningen
                    Schinkel             groningen@baseballeurope.com
Member              Ludo Peeters         peeters@baseballeurope.com
Member              Marco Screti         screti@baseballeurope.com

SCORER COMMISSION

Chairwoman          Linda Steijger       steijger@baseballeurope.com
Member              Stephanie Winkler    winkler@baseballeurope.com

OFFICE

Secretary           Kristina Uroić       office@baseballeurope.com

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Presidential Report 2019

Dear CEB member Federations,

2019 started strong, with the unanimous adoption of the WBSC Europe Constitution
during the Congress organized by our friends from the Greek Softball Federation in
Athens in February. The WBSC Europe’s interim Executive Committee was
established and has started to work on the next steps of the development of our new
continental body.

Although we showed a continuous will to build the future of European Baseball and
Softball in the cradle of the Olympics, Paris 2024 quickly denied our sport with a
chance to stay on the Olympic programme by proposing only Roller Skate, Surf,
Climbing and Breakdancing as additional sports for the 2024 Olympics just a few
weeks after, a choice that was welcomed by the International Olympic Committee
and leave us - again - at the door of the Olympics until a potential return at the Los
Angeles 2028 Games.

This is, for sure, a disappointment for us all but we need to keep moving forward,
developing our sport to show to the Olympic movement that we deserve our place at
the Olympics.

There still was Olympic excitement this year with the Europe/Africa Qualification
Tournament that was organized by WBSC in Parma and Bologna, in Italy last
September. Congratulations to Israel which won the competition and will represent
Europe and Africa at the Baseball Event of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Our tournaments were again successful in 2019.

I want to thank all participants and organizers of this year’s competitions and
congratulate Italy (U12 EBC), Slovakia (U12 EBC Qualifier), Germany (U15 EBC),
Israel and Austria (U18 EBC Qualifiers), Czech Republic (U23 EBC), France
(Women’s EBC), Israel and Lithuania (EBC Senior B-Pool), Israel (B-Pool Playoff),
The Netherlands (EBC Senior), Israel (OQT), Russtar Moscow and Sölversborg
Firehawks (Federations Cup Qualifiers), Dornbirn Indians (Federations Cup), Voith
Heidenheim (CEB Cup) and Unipolsai Bologna (Champions Cup) for their great
victories.

I also want to highlight the organization of the first ever Women’s European Baseball
Championship in Rouen, France this summer. After almost ten years of Women’s
Baseball in The Netherlands, the Oranje are not alone anymore and have been
joined by Czech Republic and France for a historic competition that I hope will lead to
many more in the future and further development of Women’s Baseball on the old
continent.

Let me also point out the success of the New York Yankees vs Boston Red Sox
Series in London on June 29-30, the first regular Major League Baseball season
games ever organized on European soil. Sold out stadiums and huge media
exposure can only help baseball in Europe, and we are already looking forward to
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next year’s Series - again in London but this time between the St. Louis Cardinals
and the Chicago Cubs.

I would like to thank all Executive Committee members, Presidents, members of
Commissions and officials for their work as well as Kristina Uroić who run the day to
day activities of the office in Zagreb.

I wish all players, coaches, officials and leaders the very best for 2020.

Marketing and Media Commission Report 2019

In 2019, the focus of the marketing and media commission's activities was again on
the television broadcast of our tournaments.

For 2019 our goal was not only to implement more international events but also to
provide member federations with their own channels. Together with Sportradar we
created a handbook to improve the handling and the upstreaming of live streams and
other video content, the covering of a tournament and it’s posting on
baseballsoftball.tv.

Unfortunately, we have not quite managed to reach the National Federations and to
inform about the possibilities of the platform. We have and will do this even more in
personal contacts.

We also have to inform more about television broadcasts from European
championships. As positive as it is, that television broadcasts happens, it is also
necessary that they will streamed to the platform in cooperation with CEB.

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Here, too, we will personally contact all potential organizers in advance.
Particularly noteworthy this year is the broadcast of the final of the Women Baseball
EC in France and some finals of the U23 EC in Prague.

The highlight of the year was the men's baseball EC in Bonn Germany.
The goal was to broadcast all games. Through joint efforts, the organizer's existing
budget could be increased through sponsorship, so that all EC games could be
shown live on our platform. It was also possible to provide local and other national
television stations with the image material as a short report on a daily basis.

At this EC we tried to follow the standards for marketing and media. Frequent
Facebook reports, daily game reports on the CEB homepage and an intensive press
support were only part of the activities at the championship in Bonn.

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I would like to mention in particular the good cooperation with the organizer the Bonn
Capitals and the DBV and thank everyone involved.

The statistics of the spectators of the EC games on our platform are impressive to
me.

All EC games are still available at baseballsoftball.tv at any time.

From now on, all broadcast games will recorded automatically on our platform and
can viewed at any time or time shifted during the broadcast.

 Date                                 Game                              Sessions
         SWEDEN vs. GERMANY - Group A                                    6.002
         GREAT BRITAIN vs. NETHERLANDS - Group A                         5.533
         CZECH REPUBLIC vs. ISRAEL - Group A                             3.864
07.Sep
         BELGIUM vs. AUSTRIA - Group B                                   3.826
         FRANCE vs. ITALY - Group B                                      3.715
         CROATIA vs. SPAIN - Group B                                     3.256
                                Total                                    26.196
         GERMANY vs. GREAT BRITAIN - Group A                             6.908
         NETHERLANDS vs. CZECH REPUBLIC - Group A                        4.956
         ITALY vs. CROATIA - Group B                                     3.993
08.Sep
         ISRAEL vs. SWEDEN - Group A                                     3.164
         AUSTRIA vs. FRANCE - Group B                                    2.571
         SPAIN vs. BELGIUM - Group B                                     2.026
                                Total                                    23.618
         GERMANY vs. ISRAEL - Group A                                    10.141
         CZECH REPUBLIC vs. GREAT BRITAIN - Group A                      3.826
         SPAIN vs. FRANCE - Group B                                      3.049
09.Sep
         ITALY vs. AUSTRIA - Group B                                     2.599
         NETHERLANDS vs. SWEDEN - Group A                                2.531
         BELGIUM vs. CROATIA - Group B                                   2.133
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                                   Total                                   24.279
         NETHERLANDS vs. GERMANY - Group A                                 6.486
         GREAT BRITAIN vs. ISRAEL - Group A                                3.767
         SPAIN vs. ITALY - Group B                                         3.551
10.Sep
         CZECH REPUBLIC vs. SWEDEN - Group A                               2.696
         BELGIUM vs. FRANCE - Group B                                      1.894
         CROATIA vs. AUSTRIA - Group B                                     1.202
                                   Total                                   19.596
         GERMANY vs. CZECH REPUBLIC - Group A                              7.675
         ISRAEL vs. NETHERLANDS - Group A                                  4.394
          ITALY vs. BELGIUM - Group B                                      2.077
11.Sep
         SWEDEN vs. GREAT BRITAIN - Group A                                1.954
          AUSTRIA vs. SPAIN - Group B                                      1.574
         GREAT BRITAIN vs. NETHERLANDS - Group A                            955
         FRANCE vs. CROATIA - Group B                                       863
                                   Total                                   19.492
         Relegation Game - Croatia vs. Sweden                                51
12.Sep
         Relegation Game - Austria vs. Great Britain                         26
                                   Total                                     77
         Quarter Final - Italy vs. Germany                                 12.554
13.Sep   Quarter Final - Spain vs. Czech Republic                          3.582
         Quarter Final - Israel vs. France                                   34
                                   Total                                   16.170
         Semi Final - Israel vs. Italy                                     8.355
14.Sep   Semi Final - Spain vs. Netherlands                                 226
         Placement Round - France vs. Germany                               199
                                   Total                                   8.780
         Final - Italy vs. Netherlands                                     12.921
         Bronze Medal Game - Spain vs. Israel                               409
14.Sep
         Game for 9th Place - Austria vs. Great Britain                     214
         Game for 5th Place - Czech Republic vs. Germany                     76
                                   Total                                   13.620
                               Total All Days                             151.828

Business opportunities

A deal signed again for baseball balls in 2019 with Teammate. All CEB tournaments
did run with Teammate balls that provided at no cost for the event organizers.
Furthermore, a cooperation contract could concluded with a baseball equipment
supplier. Bens Sports becomes an official CEB supplier and equipped the most
Officials with the necessary apparel for the 2019 season. It will continued also for
2020. This year the collection of WBSC Europe fan ware will launched to get a
foothold in marketing.

Teammate, ISG Baseball and Lee County Sports Development will be sponsors for
the Congress 2020.

Many thanks to all sponsors and the people who were involved.

For the Marketing & Media Commission

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3rd Vice President – Rainer Husty

Francois Collet                 Philipp Würfel                  Johannes Godler

Technical Commission Report 2019
2019 was a special year for the CEB Technical Commission. The Commission
underwent a change in composition and got a new chairman.
Because the chairman, Juergen Elsishans became the president of the German
Federation, the Executive Board of CEB decided that he could be no longer the
chairman of the CEB Technical Commission.
In September 2019 just before the European Championship Seniors in Germany,
Ludo Peeters (BEL) was elected as new chairman of the CEB Technical Commission
by the Executive board of CEB.
Technical Commission would like to thank Juergen for all his work he has done
during the past years. This was greatly appreciated.
A new chairman also gives a new approach. Ludo wants the chairmen of the CEB
umpires and scorders commissions to be part of the CEB Technical Commission. On
the other hand Rainer Krankl has resigned due to lack of time. Also thank you very
much for Rainer.
The new composition of the CEB Technical Commission from November 2019 is
Ludo Peeters (BEL) chairman
Frantisek Bunta (SVK) / Stephen Lesfargues (FRA) / Jan Kuipers (NED) / Jaroslav
Mika (CZE) / Aleksander Horvatic (CRO) / Fred van Groningen Schinkel (NED) and
Linda Steijger (NED).

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All results, statistics, boxscores and daily reports of the 2019 CEB tournaments are
published on the CEB competition website.
In 2019 a total of 16 tournaments were played. 5 Club and 11 National-Team
competitions were organized all over Europe. For the first time there was a European
Championship Baseball Women organized. The European Championship Seniors in
Bonn (GER) was also a qualifier for the WBSC Olympic Qualifier Europe/Africa in
Italy.
In June, 34 club teams from 20 different federations participated in the various
European Cup competitions.
In these competitions 13 technical commissioners, 37 international umpires 22
international scorers and 5 scoring directors were active.
In July, August and September 72 National team selections from 28 different
federations participated in the various European Championships and Qualifiers.
In total 26 Senior-Teams, 8 U23-Teams, 11 Junior-Teams, 10 Cadet-Teams, 14
Juvenile-Teams and for the first time ever 3 Women baseball Teams participated in
these competitions.
In these competitions 30 technical commissioners, 77 international umpires,44
international scorers and 10 scoring directors were active.

The CEB Technical Commission wants to thank all CEB officials who were active at
the CEB tournaments, without officials there would be no competitions.

Competitions 2019

Cup Competitions 2019

European Champions Cup
Played in Bologna (ITA) with 8 teams.

Unipolsai Bologna (ITA) won the European Champion title in a final against L&D
Amsterdam (NED). Deurne Spartans (BEL) relegate to the CEB Cup.

CEB Cup
Played in Brno (CZE) with 8 teams.

VOITH Heidenheim (GER) won the tournament and earned a spot for Germany in
the Champions Cup 2020. Vindija Varazdin (CRO) relegate to the Federation Cup

Federations Cup
Played in Karlovac (CRO) with 6 teams.

Dornbirn Indians (AUT) won the tournament and earned a spot for Austria in the CEB
Cup 2020. Leksand BSC (SWE) relegate to the Federation Cup Qualifier

Federations Cup Qualifier Pool 1
Played in Moscow (RUS) with 6 teams.

Russtar Moscow (RUS) won the tournament and earned a spot for Rusia in the
Federation Cup 2020.

Federations Cup Qualifier Pool 2

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Played in Blagoevgrad (BUL) with 6 teams.

Sölvesborg Firehawks (SWE) won the tournament and earned a spot for Sweden in
the Federation Cup 2020.

European Championships 2019

European Championship B-Pool 1
Played in Trnava (SVK) with 8 teams.

Lithuania (LTH) won the tournament and was qualified for the Play- off games.
Romania relegate to the C-Pool

European Championship B-Pool 2
Played in Moscow (RUS) with 8 teams.

Israel (ISR) won the tournament and was qualified for the Play- off games. Bulgaria
relegate to the C-Pool

Play-Off European Championship B-Pool
Played in Utena (LTH) between Lithuania and Israel.

Israel (ISR) won this play-off and earned a spot in the European Championship A-
level 2019

European Championship U12
Played in Trebic (CZE) with 8 teams

Italy (ITA) won this tournament, Hungary relegate to the EC U12 Qualifier 2020

European Championship Qualifier U12
Played in Trebic (CZE) with 6 teams

Slovakia (SVK) won this tournament and earned a spot in the EC U12 2020
A remark was made by the Technical Delegate and the Scoring director of this
tournament: please nominate more scorders for this tournament in the future. A lot of
games every day and the pitch count…..

European Championship Qualifier U18 Pool 1
Played in Sundbyberg (SWE) with 5 teams

Israel (ISR) won this tournament and earned a spot in the EC U18 2020

European Championship Qualifier U18 Pool 2
Played in Miejska Gorka (POL) with 6 teams

Austria (AUT) won this tournament and earned a spot in the EC U18 2020

European Championship U15
Played in Nettuno (ITA) with 8 teams

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Germany (GER) won this tournament, Slovakia and France relegate to the EC U15
Qualifier 2020
The organization of this tournament could have been better. Not enough volunteers
to assist the LOC, sometimes problems with the transportation. The main field had
seen better times, a refreshment had been desirable. No ground crew available to
prepare the playing field

European Championship Women
Played in Rouen (FRA) with 3 teams

France (FRA) won this tournament. This was the first time that this European
Championship Women was played. Hopefully we will have more participants at the
next edition

European Championship U23
Played in Prague (CZE) with 8 teams

Czech Republic (CZE) won this tournament, Ukraine and Croatia relegate to the EC
U23 Qualifier 2020

European Championship A-Pool
Played in Bonn and Solingen (GER) with 12 teams

The Netherlands (NED) won this tournament, Croatia and Sweden relegate to the EC
B-level 2020. This tournament was a qualifier for the WBSC Olympic Qualifier
Europe/Africa for Tokyo 2020. The first 5 national teams of the European
Championship were qualified and moved directly after the European Championship
to Italy were the tournament was played in Parma and Bologna. The qualified
countries were: The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Israel and Czech Republic.
This was a very well organized tournament with a huge number of volunteers who
were all very motivated. The interest was great, there were many spectators
especially when Germany played. Sometimes complaints about the food for the
officials (cold and not enough).

Conclusion:
The tournaments were usually well organized, no problems that could not be solved.
Sometimes the start was hesitant, but after a day everything was fine. A recurring
problem is the strength of the internet connection on the fields and in the hotels of the
officials. More attention is needed because this complicates the work of the scoring
directors. Another point of work is the food for the officials, this must improve in the
next years. It is not ok that officials have to eat ‘Fast food’ all week. I am convinced
that we can improve this in the future.

Ludo Peeters
Chairman CEB Technical Commission

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Umpire Commission Report 2019

Umpire Commission in 2019:
Fred van Groningen Schinkel (NED) Chairman
Ludo Peters (BEL) member (Until November 2019)
Marco Screti (ITA) member

Clinics
Development

The CEB clinics for starters in Europe was held in Sweden and Italy. The trainer’s
thanks for their commitment.

Exchange of CEB-Umpires during international tournaments in Europe

To further improve the CEB Umpire CEB makes arrangements with the organization
of international tournaments, to invite CEB-Umpires to participate. The goal is to help
Umpires to stay on a high level of umpiring.

World Port Tournament (NED): Makouchetchev (FRA) and Simone Menicucci (ITA).
Prague Baseball Week (CZE): Adolf Garcia Esteller (ESP) and Mika Sarjanen (FIN)
France International Baseball Tournament; Roy van de Wateringen (NED) and Peter
de Haan (NED).

CEB Umpires active in WBSC World tournaments

CEB umpires were invited for the next tournaments:

WBSC Premier12
Michael Ulloa Díaz (ESP)
Alessandro Spera (ITA)
Stenar van Groningen Schinkel (NED)

WBSC U-18
Simone Menicucci (ITA)

WBSC U-12
Marec Vičar (CZE)
Yuri Macchiavelli (ITA)

WBSC Europe/Africa Qualifier
Oswald Tscharf (AUT)
František Přibyl (CZE)
Cuauhtémoc Suárez Hernández (ESP)
Serge Makouchetchev (FRA)
Jens Waider (GER
Fabrizio Fabrizi (ITA)
Edwin Louisa (NED)

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Mojmir Jankovic (SVK)

European Tournaments Umpire evaluations
In 2019 the CEB Umpire Commission nominated in the 16 tournaments 114 umpires.
The umpires were assessed in 279 games by a technical commissioner. The
technical commissioner has to evaluate the game with the umpire and fill in a report.
At the end of the tournament these reports were send to the Umpire Commission and
were administrated.

The comments of the TCs were personally sent to all active umpires in the
tournaments. The goal is that the umpires can improve themselves even more.

After the European competitions, we were able to inform the national federations that
provided umpires, about the results of their umpires during CEB Events in 2019.

CEB Umpire of the Year
2020: Henri van Heijningen (NED)
2019: David Kulhánek (CZE)              2018: Fabrizio Fabrizi (ITA)
2017: Serge Makouchetchev (FRA)         2016: Tomislav Ozimec (CRO)
      Mo mir Jankovič (SVK)             2014: Arnoldus Ramanauskas (LTU)
2013 Frantisek Pribyl (CZE)             2012: Marco Taurelli (ITA)
2011: Jens Waider (GER)                 2010: Dana Besczczynski (AUT)
2009: Sante de Franceshi (ITA)          2008: Fred van Groningen Schinkel (NED)

Tournaments
The umpires who were invited to a tournament received the appointments in March.
Many cancellations resulted in a lot of extra work for the office and the umpire
commission.
To get more stability in the system in 2020, availability forms were sent in December.
Due to this preliminary work, we expect to have to process fewer cancellations or
changes.

CEB Umpires
The list of CEB umpires we could use in:
                   Names on list       new umpires          used in tournaments
       2019               139               15                     114
       2018               132               14                     105
       2017               133               14                     108
       2016               161               34                     106
       2015               149               13                     84
       2014               149               9                      85
       2013               135               35
       2012               150               16

Matters of instruction

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During the tournaments, all TC was asked to pay attention to the following: Discuss
with the Umpires, before the tournament starts, the changes in the baseball rules for
2019.

Thanks
The Umpire Commission wants to thank the administration of CEB and everyone
who worked together in 2019 to make the umpires in Europe even better.

Fred van Groningen Schinkel
Chairman Umpire Commission

Scorers Commission Report 2019

Scorer Commission in 2019
Linda Steijger (NED) chairwoman and Stephanie Winkler (GER).

Tournaments
In 2019 a total of 16 tournaments have been played. All results, statistics and daily
reports of these CEB tournaments are published on the CEB competition website
(www.baseballstats.eu).
For the tournaments we have had the support of a lot of Scoring Directors and some
International scorers. 2019 has been a difficult year to fill all the positions, but with
the help of our Scoring Directors of which several worked more than one tournament,
we managed.

Recommendations to LOCs
To perform the play-by-play it is recommended to have a wired internet connection or
connection via USB. In 2019 in some tournaments the Wi-Fi connection at the
venues caused problems which made it impossible to perform a proper play-by-play.
We emphasise that the minimum of scorers required mentioned in the competition
rules is really necessary. These numbers exclude the Scoring Director. Also the
scorers should be dedicated to keeping score which means not being a player, part
of the field crew etc. If needed, with the help of the scoring commission it is possible
to organize scoring clinics before tournament start, to update the knowledge of the
local scorers and give them an easier job during the tournament.
In 2019 again the play-by-play was performed with The Automated Scorebook
software. Local scorers have to be trained to use this program.

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Scoring manual
The WBSC Baseball Scoring manual (version 2016) is used for all CEB tournaments.
We are aware that the WBSC Scoring Commission is working on an update of this
manual. As soon as finished, we will discuss with WBSC how to get the new version to
the European scorers, so we can keep up and expend the level of scoring.

CEB Scorers active in WBSC baseball tournaments
CEB Scorers were invited to the following WBSC baseball tournaments:

U 12 Baseball World Cup – Tainan (TPE)
Scoring Director: Fabio Zaccaria (ITA)
Scorer: Feiko Drost (NED)

Baseball Europe/Africa Qualifier – Bologna (ITA)
Scoring Director: Anna Maria Paini (ITA)
Scorers: Feiko Drost (NED), Susana Santos (ESP), Eleonora Tonelli (ITA), Fabio
Zaccaria (ITA)

Premier 12
Scoring Director overall: Anna Maria Paini (ITA)
Pablo Carpio (ESP - Assistant Scoring Director in Taichung, Scorer in Tokyo), Susana
Santos (ESP – Scorer in Taichung and in Tokyo), Fabio Zaccaria (ITA – Assistant
Scoring Director in Seoul, Scorer in Tokyo)

Also many European scorers participated as International Scorers in WBSC Softball
tournaments.

CEB Scorer of the Year
CEB Scorer of the Year 2018 was awarded to Huub Nelissen.

Thanks
We wish to thank everybody who was involved in any kind of cooperation with scorers,
scoring directors and the scoring commission in 2019.

Linda Steijger
Chairwoman CEB Scorer Commission

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Club Team Competitions 2019

European Champions Cup
Bologna, Italy
04th – 08th June 2019         Final Standing
                              Pos   Team
                              1     UnipolSai Bologna (ITA)
                              2     L&D Amsterdam (NED)
                              3     Curaçao Neptunus (NED)
                              4     Parmaclima (ITA)
                              5     Rouen Huskies (FRA)
                              6     Bonn Capitals (GER)
                              7     Ostrava Arrows (CZE)
                              8     Deurne Spartans (BEL)

C.E.B. Cup
Brno, Czech Republic
05th – 09th June 2019         Final Standing
                              Pos    Team
                              1      VOIT Heidenheim Heidekoepfe (GER)
                              2      Draci Brno (CZE)
                              3      Montigny Cougars (FRA)
                              4      Minsk (BLR)
                              5      Astros Valencia (ESP)
                              6      BioTexCom KNTU (UKR)
                              7      Zurich Challengers (SUI)
                              8      Vindija Varazdin (CRO)

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Federations Cup
Karlovac, Croatia
10th – 15th June 2019                 Final Standing
                                      Pos   Team
                                      1     Dornbirn Indians (AUT)
                                      2     Vienna Metrostars (AUT)
                                      3     Borgerhout Squirrels (BEL)
                                      4     Olimpija Karlovac (CRO)
                                      5     Therwil Flyers (SUI)
                                      6     Leksand BSC (SWE)

Federations Cup Qualifier – Pool 1
Moscow, Russia
10th – 15th June 2019                 Final Standing Pool 1
                                     Pos    Team
                                     1      Russtar Moscow (RUS)
                                     2      Sofia Blues (BUL)
                                     3      Apollo Bratislava (SVK)
                                     4      Kaunas County (LTU)
                                     5      London Mets (GBR)
                                     6      KS Silesia Rybnik (POL)

Federations Cup Qualifier – Pool 2
Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
10th – 15th June 2019                 Final Standing Pool 2
                                     Pos    Team
                                     1      Sölvesborg Firehawks (SWE)
                                     2      UKS Deby Osielsko (POL)
                                     3      Atlethic Sofia (BUL)
                                     4      Hearts Falcons (GBR)
                                     5      Utenos Titanai (LTU)
                                     6      CS Atletico Alexandria (ROM)

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National Team Competitions 2019

European Championship Juveniles
Třebíč, Czech Republic                       Final Standing
02nd– 06th July 2019

                                             Pos    Team
                                             1      Italy
                                             2      Netherlands
                                             3      Germany
                                             4      Czech Republic
                                             5      France
                                             6      Russia
                                             7      Belgium
                                             8      Hungary

European Championship Qualifiers Juveniles
Třebíč, Czech Republic
02nd– 06th July 2019                          Final Standing

                                              Pos   Team
                                              1     Slovakia
                                              2     Great Britain
                                              3     Ukraine
                                              4     Austria
                                              5     Lithuania
                                              6     Romania

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European Championship Cadets
Nettuno, Italy
16th – 20th July 2019                       Final Standing

                                            Pos    Team
                                            1      Germany
                                            2      Italy
                                            3      Netherlands
                                            4      Czech Republic
                                            5      Russia
                                            6      Austria
                                            7      France
                                            8      Slovakia

European Championship Qualifier Juniors
Sundbyberg, Sweden
08th – 13st July 2019                      Final Standing

                                           Pos    Team
                                           1      Israel
                                           2      Belgium
                                           3      Sweden
                                           4      Great Britain
                                           5      Switzerland

European Championship Juniors
Miejska Gorka, Poland                      Final Standing
08th – 13st July 2019
                                           Pos    Team
                                           1      Austria
                                           2      Russia
                                           3      Ukraine
                                           4      Hungary
                                           5      Slovenia
                                           6      Poland

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European Championship U23
Prague, Czech Republic                     Final Standing
07th – 11th August 2019
                                           Pos    Team
                                           1      Czech Republic
                                           2      Germany
                                           3      Belgium
                                           4      France
                                           5      Great Britain
                                           6      Netherlands
                                           7      Ukraine
                                           8      Croatia

European Championship Qualifier – B-Pool
Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
01st – 06th July 2019                       Final Standing
                                            Pos    Team
                                            1      Israel
                                            2      Russia
                                            3      Greece
                                            4      Serbia
                                            5      Ireland
                                            6      Bulgaria

European Championship Qualifier – B-Pool
Trnava, Slovakia
02nd – 06th July 2019                       Final Standing
                                            Pos    Team
                                            1      Lithuania
                                            2      Ukraine
                                            3      Slovakia
                                            4      Switzerland
                                            5      Belarus
                                            6      Poland
                                            7      Finland
                                            8      Romania

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Play-off European Championship B-Pool
Utena, Lithuania
26th – 28th July 2019                   Final Standing
                                              Pos   Team
                                              1     Israel
                                              2     Lithuania

European Championship Women
Rouen, France
31st July – 03rd August 2019                  Final Standing
                                              Pos   Team
                                              1     France
                                              2     Netherlands
                                              3     Czech Republic

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European Championship Qualifier – A-Pool
Bonn & Solingen, Germany
07th – 15th September 2019                 Final Standing
                                           Pos   Team
                                           1     Netherlands
                                           2     Italy
                                           3     Spain
                                           4     Israel
                                           5     Czech Republic
                                           6     Germany
                                           7     Belgium
                                           8     France
                                           9     Great Britain
                                           10    Austria
                                           11    Croatia
                                           12    Sweden

For more details on Competitions, visit

http://www.baseballstats.eu/

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WBSC Competitions 2019

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Premier12                            Europe/Africa Qualifier
JPN, KOR, MEX, TPE                   for Tokyo 2020
02nd – 17th November 2019            ITA
                                     18th – 22nd September
Final Standing
                                          Final Standing
Pos   Team
1     Japan                         Pos     Team
2     South Korea                   1       Israel
3     Mexico                        2       Netherlands
4     USA                           3       Czech Republic
5     Chinese Taipei                4       Spain
6     Australia                     5       Italy
7     Canada                        6       South Africa
7     Dominican Republic
7     Venezuela
10    Cuba
10    Netherlands
10    Puerto Rico

U18 Baseball World Cup               U12 Baseball World Cup
KOR                                  TPE
30th August - 08th September 2019    26th July - 04th August 2019

Final Standing                       Final Standing

Pos   Team                          Pos     Team
1     Chinese Taipei                1       Chinese Taipei
2     USA                           2       Japan
3     South Korea                   3       Cuba
4     Australia                     4       South Korea
5     Japan                         5       Mexico
6     Canada                        6       Venezuela
7     Netherlands                   7       USA
8     Spain                         8       Czech Republic
9     Panama                        9       Italy
10    Nicaragua                     10      Australia
11    China                         11      South Africa
12    South Africa                  12      Fiji

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CEB Historical Data 2019

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Overview Registered Members 2014-2019
Federation               CEB       Total      Total      Total      Total      Total      Total
                        member      CEB        CEB        CEB        CEB        CEB        CEB
                         since    Members    Members    Members    Members    Members    Members
                                   2019       2018       2017       2016       2015       2014
Austria                    1983       6500       6400       5000       5800       4850       4929
Belarus                    1994        350        300        300        350       270*       270*
Belgium                    1953       2067       1879       2228       2200       2780       2933
Bulgaria                   1992      1300*      1300*      1300*      1300*      1300*      1300*
Croatia                    1992        507        587        617        602        613        712
Cyprus                     1999       120*       120*       120*       120*       120*       120*
Czech Republic             1993       7911       7080       6899       7244       6825       5342
Denmark                    1979        152        148        128        105         92       160*
Estonia                    2012        115         95         93         96         82       100*
Finland                    1980        200        200        220        250        250        220
France                     1953      13600      13600      13100      12675      12000      11262
Georgia                    1992        400        420        415        196       316*       316*
Germany                    1953      22410      22577      23173      24142      24588      24876
Great Britain              1960       1500      2000*       2000      1500*       1500       2300
Greece                     1998        500        500        400        300        650        600
Hungary                    1993        604        371        382        350       654*       654*
Iceland                      __          -
Ireland                    1994        472       449        405       409*        409       452*
Israel                     1995        850       850        850        705        900       658*
Italy                      1953      11596     15139      15254      22372      22775      23876
Latvia                     2009        107      100*       100*       100*       100*       100*
Lithuania                  1992        500       805        790       680*        680      1010*
Malta                      1983       128*      128*       128*       128*        128       140*
Moldova                    1993       525*      525*       525*       525*       525*       525*
Netherlands                1956      10399      8812      10599      11206       9577      21845
Norway                     1993        442       537       646*        646        699        818
Poland                     1960       670*       670       670*        670        608       900*
Portugal                   1994        368      512*        512        420        324       367*
Romania                    1991        504      650*        650        410        786        800
Russia                     1988       3000      3000      1000*       1000       1400       3000
San Marino                 1971        129       162        162        174        188        691
Serbia                     1996        167      285*        285        184        348        315
Slovakia                   1993       683*       683        716        862        748        630
Slovenia                   1992       176*       176        100       583*        583       512*
Spain                      1953       2780      2445       2160       2748       1538       1368
Sweden                     1957        848       795        705        638       1930      1000*
Switzerland                1982        869       853        800        826        769        768
Turkey                     2003       880*      880*       880*       880*       880*       880*
Ukraine                    1992       1750      1700       1600       1600       1500       1200
* = last year's data;
In blue -bas&soft
TOTAL                               95.426    97.735     95.912    104.996    104465     117949

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History Final Standings – European Championships Seniors

History Final Standings – European Championships Juniors

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History Final Standings – European Championships Cadets

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History Final Standings – European Championships Juveniles

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                CEB Member Countries 2019

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Austria
Federation: Austrian Baseball Federation
Address:    Sportzentrum Spenadlwiese
            1020 Wien
            Austria
Phone:      +43-1-7744114
Email:      office@baseballaustria.com
Website:    www.baseballaustria.com
Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/AustrianBaseballFederation
Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/baseballaustria/

Registered Baseball Players: ca. 6.500
President:    Mr. Rainer Husty
Sec. General: Mr. Johannes Godler

National Champions (senior)
Dornbirn Indians
National Champions (juniors)
Vienna Wanderers (U18)
National Champions (cadets)
Diving Ducks Wiener Neustadt (U16)
National Champions (PONY)
Diving Ducks Wiener Neustadt (U14)
National Champions (juveniles)
Vienna Lions (U12)

Belarus
Federation: Belarus Baseball Association
Address:    Babushkina street, 6-A, room 601
            220024 Minsk
            Belarus
Phone:      +375 29 6545822
Email:      belarus_baseball@yahoo.com
Website:    belarusbaseball.com
Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/1000259553330158/

Registered Baseball Players: 350
Chairman:    Mr. Aliaksandr Sechka
Vice-Chairman: Mr. Yauheni Karalevich
Sec.Genaral: Mr. Aliaksandr Vabishchevich

National Champions (senior)
Minsk
National Champions (juniors)
---
National Champions (cadets)
Minsk
National Champions (juveniles)
Minsk
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Belgium
Federation: Koninklijke Belgische Baseball en Softball Federatie (KBBSF)
Address:    Meistraat 21/63
            2000 Antwerp
            Belgium
Phone:      +32 (0)479 22 91 85
Email:      info@kbbsf-frbbs.be , fa397363@skynet.be
Website:    www.kbbsf-frbbs.be

Registered Baseball Players: 2.067
President:    Mr. René Laforce
Sec. General: Mr. Ludo Peeters

National Champions (senior)
Deurne Spartans
National Champions (juniors)
Hoboken Pioneers
National Champions (cadets)
Mont.St.Guibut Phoenix
National Champions (juveniles)
Mortsel Spartans team

Bulgaria
Federation: Bulgarian Baseball Federation
Address:    Vassil Levski, 75
            1040 Sofia
            Bulgaria
Phone:      +359-2-9300744
Fax:        +359-2-9300744
Email:      bfbaseball@dir.bg
Website:    www.baseball.bg
Facebook:   https://web.facebook.com/Bulgarian-Baseball-Federation-56274262454/?_rdr

Registered Members: 1.300 (2012 data)
President:   Mr. Yassen Nedelchev

National Champions (senior)
--
National Champions (juniors)
---
National Champions (cadets)
---
National Champions (juveniles)
---

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Croatia
Federation: Hrvatski Baseball Savez
Address:    Trg Krešimira Ćosića
            10 000 Zagreb
            Croatia
Phone:      +385-1-3012355
Email:      hrvatski.baseball.savez@gmail.com
Website:    www.baseball-cro.hr
Facebook:   https://web.facebook.com/CroatianBaseball/

Registered Members: 507
President:    Mr. Osvaldo Vavra
Sec. General: Mr. Zdenko Ostovic

National Champions (senior)
Nada SM - Split
National Champions (juniors)
Vindija - Varaždin
National Champions (cadets)
Olimpija - Karlovac
National Champions (juveniles)
U13 Olimpija – Karlovac / U11 Vindija - Varaždin

Cyprus
Federation: Cyprus Amateur Baseball Federation
Address:    P.O. Box 777
            Larnaca
            Cyprus
Phone:      +357-4-620460
Fax:        +357-4-660870
Email:      proedros@cpa.gov.cy

Registered Members: 120 (2012 data)
President:    Mr. Angelos Mylonas
Sec. General: Mr. Stelios Stylianos

National Champions (senior)
---
National Champions (juniors)
---
National Champions (cadets)
---
National Champions (juveniles)
---

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Czech Republic
Federation: Ceská Baseballová Asociace
Address:    Zátopkova        /
            160 17 Prague 6
            Czech Republic
Phone:      + 420 602 394 994
Email:      baseball@baseball.cz
Website:    www.baseball.cz
Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/baseballczech/
Twitter:    https://twitter.com/baseballczech
Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/baseballczech/
Youtube:    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC93EAvSu-r39CkjtskCnA8w

Registered Baseball Players: 7.911
President:    Mr. Petr Ditrich
Sec. General: Mr. František Přibyl

National Champions (senior)
Arrows Ostrava
National Champions (juniors)
U Draci Brno / U 8 Hroši Brno
National Champions (cadets)
U15 Eagles Praha / U13 Draci Brno
National Champions (juveniles)
U Hroši Brno

Denmark
Federation: Danish Baseball Federation
Address:    Rosensgade 64 B, 1.tv
            8300 Odder
            Denmark
Phone:      +45-22357895
Email:      rm@baseball.dk
Website:    www.baseball.dk
Facebook:   Danish Baseball Federation

Registered Baseball Players: 152
President:    Dr. Rod Moore
Sec. General: Mr. Omar Gamarra

National Champions (senior)
Copenhagen Urban Achievers
National Champions (juniors)
---
National Champions (cadets)
---
National Champions (juveniles)
---

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Estonia
Federation: Eesti Pesapalli ja Softpalli Liit
            Estonian Baseball Federation
Address:    Metsa 7-1
            Kiili, Harjumaa 75401
            Estonia
Phone:      + 372-5-8500607
Email:      kiilipantrid@gmail.com
Website:    www.baseball.ee

Registered Baseball Players: 115
President:    Mr. Tauno Koppel

National Champions (senior)
Baseball Club Kiili Panthers
National Champions (juniors)
Baseball Club Kiili Panthers
National Champions (cadets)
--
National Champions (juveniles)
Baseball Club Kiili Panthers

Finland
Federation: Suomen Baseball- ja Softball-liitto
Address:    Robert Huberin tie 2
            FI-01510 VANTAA
            Finland
Phone:      +358 40 592 1675
Email:      sbsl@baseball.fi ; baseballsuomi@gmail.com
Website:    www.baseball.fi
Facebook:   BaseballSuomi
Twitter:    @BaseballFinland
Instagram:  baseball_finland

Registered Baseball Players: 200
President:    Mr. Milton "Tony" Jones
Sec. General: Mr. Ville Saarman

National Champions (senior)
Espoo Expos
National Champions (juniors)
--
National Champions (cadets)
--
National Champions (juveniles)

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France
Federation: Fédération Française de Baseball et Softball
Address:    4 rue de Fécamp
            75012 Paris
            France
Phone:      +331 44 68 89 30
Fax:        +331 44 68 96 00
Email:      contact@ffbs.fr
Website:    www.ffbs.fr
Facebook:   FFBaseballSoftball
Twitter:    FFBS_BASEBALL
Instagram:  frenchbaseballsoftball

Registered Baseball Players: 13.600
President:    Mr. Didier Seminet
Sec. General: Mr. Thierry Raphet

National Champions (senior)
Rouen Baseball 76
National Champions (juniors)
Saint-Aubin-de-Médoc Blue Jays
National Champions (cadets)
Sénart Templiers
National Champions (juveniles)
Montendre Drosers

Georgia
Federation: Georgian Baseball & Softball National Federation
Address:    11,Chavchavadze Ave. app26
            0179 Tbilisi
            Georgia
Phone:      +995-322392380, +995-577151155
Fax:        +995-32-239-97-93
Email:      baseballtbilisi@gmail.com
Facebook:   Georgian Baseball & Softball Federation

Registered Baseball Players: 400
President:    Mr. David Khrikadze
Sec. General: Mr. Giorgi Datunashvili

National Champions (senior)
BC „Georgian Baseball Academy” Tbilisi (GBA)
National Champions (juniors)
BSC “The Wolves” Tbilisi
National Champions (cadets)
BSC “Tbilisi Sea”
National Champions (juveniles)

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Germany
Federation: Deutscher Baseball und Softball Verband e.V.
Address:    Otto-Fleck-Schneise 12
            60528 Frankfurt am Main
            Germany
Phone:      +49-69-67726856
Fax:        +49 69 67726-903
Email:      office@baseball-softball.de
Website:    www.baseball-softball.de
Facebook:   https://de-de.facebook.com/baseball.softball.de/

Registered Baseball&Softball players: 22.410
President:    Mr. Jürgen Elsishans
Executive Director: Mr. Kai Göggelmann

National Champions (senior)
Heidenheim Heideköpfe
National Champions (juniors)
Buchbinder Legionäre Regensburg
National Champions (cadets)
Bonn Capitals
National Champions (juveniles)
Bonn Capitals

Great Britain
Federation: British Baseball Federation
Address:    -
            United Kingdom
Phone:      -
Email:      info@britishbaseball.org
Website:    www.britishbaseball.org
Facebook:   @britishbaseball
Twitter:    @britishbaseball

Registered Baseball Players: 1500
President:   Mr. Gerry Perez
Sec.General: Mr. Vince O’Brien

National Champions (seniors)
London Mets
National Champions (juniors)
London Mets
National Champions (cadets)
--
National Champions (juveniles)
London Sports

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Greece
Federation: Hellenic Amateur Baseball Federation
Address:    c/o Hotel Byron, 19 Vyronos Street
            Plaka, Athens 10558
            Greece
Phone:      +30- 210-323-0327
Fax:        +30-210-322-0276
Email:      tommazarakis@hotmail.com
Website:    www.greekbaseball.com
Facebook:   www.facebook.com/greekbaseball
Twitter:    @GreekBaseball // Insagram: #greekbaseball

Registered Baseball Players: 500 (2018 data)
President:    Mr. Panagiotis Mitsiopoulos
Sec. General: Mr. Panangelos Kanistras

National Champions (senior)
--
National Champions (juniors)
--
National Champions (cadets)
--

Hungary
Federation: Magyar Országos Baseball és Softball Szövetség
Address:    Semsey Andor u. 9. Fsz3
            H1143 Budapest
            Hungary
Phone:      +36203914343
Email:      office@baseball.hu
Website:    www.baseball.hu
Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/pg/MOBSSZ
Twitter:    @MOBSSZ

Registered Baseball Players: 604
President:    Mr. Morua Roberto
Sec. General: Mr. Karsai Gergő

National Champions (senior)
Budapest Reds
National Champions (juniors)
--
National Champions (cadets)
Budapest Reds
National Champions (juveniles)
Óbuda Gladiators

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Iceland (provisional)
Federation: Icelandic Baseball and Softball Association
Address:    Kurland 4
            108 Reykjavik
            Iceland
Phone:      +354-820-0825
Email:      raj@baseball.is
Website:    www.baseball.is

Registered Members: 110 (2013 data)
President:    Mr. Raj K. Bonifacius
Sec. General: Mr. Bjarni Johann Thordarson

National Champions (senior)
---
National Champions (juniors)
---
National Champions (cadets)
---
National Champions (juveniles)
---

Ireland
Federation: Baseball Ireland
Address:    Highfield, Pluckhimin Cross
            Garristown, Co Dublin
            Ireland
Phone:      +353-87-283-7494
Email:      sean.michell02@gmail.com
Website:    www.baseballireland.com
Facebook:   www.facebook.com/baseballireland

Registered Baseball Players: 472
President:    Mr. Tom Kelley
Sec. General: Mr. Sean Mitchell

National Champions (senior)
Dublin City Hurricanes
National Champions (juniors)
--
National Champions (cadets)
--
National Champions (juveniles)
Greystones Mariners

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Israel
Federation: Israel Association of Baseball
Address:    P.O. Box 48159
            Tel Aviv 61481
            Israel
Phone:      +972-52-4279940
Email:      info@baseball.org.il
Website:    www.baseball.org.il
Facebook:   www.facebook.com/IABIsraelBaseball/
Twitter:    @ILbaseball
Instagram:  Israel_baseball

Registered Baseball Players: 850
President:    Mr. Jordan Alter
Sec. General: Ms. Margo Sugarman

National Champions (senior)
Ra’anana Raiders
National Champions (juniors)
Ra’anana Raiders
National Champions (cadets)
Lev Hasharon Nationals
National Champions (juveniles)
Tel Aviv Comrades

Italy
Federation: Federazione Italiana Baseball Softball
Address:    Viale Tiziano 74
            00196 Roma
            Italy
Phone:      +39 06 32297212 / 06 32297221
Fax:        +39 06 3233752 / 06 01902684
Email:      teamitaly@fibs.it ; segreteria@fibs.it
Website:    www.fibs.it
Facebook:   FIBS – Federazione Italiana Baseball Softball
Twitter:    @FiBSpress
YouTube:    FIBSChannel
Instagram:  fibs_italia

Registered Baseball Players: 11.596
President:    Mr. Andrea Marcon
Sec. General: Mr. Giampiero Curti

National Champions (senior)
Fortitudo Bologna
National Champions (U18)
San Marino Junior BS
National Champions U15 (cadets)
Staranzano Ducks
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National Champions U12 (juveniles)
Staranzano Ducks

Latvia
Federation: Latvijas Beisbola Federācija
Address:    Gravas street 17-1
            1057 Riga
            Latvia
Phone:      +371 29449394
Email:      info@beisbols.lv
Website:    www.beisbols.lv
Facebook:   facebook.com/beisbols.lv

Registered Members: 107
President:    Mr. Ainārs Birulis
Sec. General: -

National Champions (senior)
TSI Rīga

Lithuania
Federation: Lietuvos Beisbolo Asociacija
Address:    Azuolyno 5
            Vilnius
            Lithuania
Phone:      +37069999444
Email:      virmidas@gmail.com
Website:    www.beisbolas.lt

Registered Baseball&Softball Players: 500
President:    Mr. Virmidas Neverauskas

National Champions (senior)
Utena Titanai
National Champions (juniors)
Kaunas SM Tauras
National Champions (cadets)
BK Vilnius Vilnius
National Champions (juveniles)
Vilnius SM Tauras

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Malta
Federation: Malta Baseball and Softball Association
Address:    Marsa Sports Complex
            Aldo Moro Road
            Marsa MRS 9065
            Malta
Phone:      +356 79315357
Email:      president@baseballsoftball.org.mt
Website:    www.baseballsoftball.org.mt
Facebook:   Maltabaseballsoftball
Twitter:    https://twitter.com/MABS27940643

Registered Members: 128 (2015 data)
President:    Mr. Andrew Bajo
Sec. General: Mr. Kevin Spiteri

National Champions (senior)
--
National Champions (juniors)
---
National Champions (cadets)
---
National Champions (juveniles)
---

Moldova
Federation: National Sport Federation of Baseball and Softball of
            Republic of Moldova
Address:    str-la. 2Pietrariei 2A, mun. Chisinau
            Republic of Moldova
Phone:      +37379013753
Fax:        ---
Email:      belticvlad@gmail.com
Website:    www.baseballmoldova.com

Registered Members: 525 (2012 data)
President:    Mr. Vladislav Beltic
Sec. General: Mr. Andrei Marleanu

National Champions (senior)
---
National Champions (juniors)
---
National Champions (cadets)

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Netherlands
Federation: Koninklijke Nederlandse Baseball en Softball Bond
Address:    Kelvinbaan 48
            3439 MT Nieuwegein
            Netherlands
Phone:      +3130 - 2020 100
Email:      info@knbsb.nl
Website:    www.knbsb.nl
Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/HonkbalSoftbalNL/?ref=bookmarks
Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/honkbalsoftbalnl/
Twitter:    https://twitter.com/HonkbalSoftbal

Registered Baseball Players: 11.596
President:    Mr. Mark Herbold
Sec. General:

National Champions (senior)
L&D Amsterdam
National Champions (juniors)
Diamonds Amsterdam
National Champion (cadets):
Diamonds Amsterdam
National Champion (juveniles):
Neptunus Rotterdam

Norway
Federation: Norges Soft- og Baseballforbund
Address:      0840 Oslo
              Norway
Phone:        +47 21 02 98 55
Fax:          +47 21 02 90 03
Email:        baseball@nif.idrett.no
Website:      www.soft-baseball.no
Twitter/Inst: #baseballnorway @baseballnorway

Registered Members: 442
President:    Mr. Aleksander Wermers NILSEN
Sec. General: Mr. B ørn Christian Thode

National Champions (senior)
ØHIL Royals
National Champion (juveniles):
Oslo Alligators

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Poland
Federation: Polski Zwiazek Baseballu i Softballu
Address:    ul. Grzybowska str. 5a
            00 - 132 Warsaw
            Poland
Phone:      +48 601317432
Email:      pzball@wp.pl
Website:    www.baseballsoftball.pl

Registered Members: 670 (2017 data)
President:   Mr. Christopher Sweeney

National Champions (senior)
MKS STAL BIS KUTNO
National Champions (juniors)
BUKS GEPARDY ŻORY
National Champions (cadets)
WUKB CENTAURY WARSZAWA
National Champions (juveniles)
UKS CAPER KEDZIERZYN KOZLE / WUKB CENTAURY WARSZAWA / TSB DEMONY MIEJSKA GORKA

Portugal
Federation: Federação Portuguesa de Basebol e Softbol
Address:    Complexo Desportivo e Campo de Basebol
            Cidade Desportiva de Abrantes
            Alameda Carlos Lopes
            2200-266 Abrantes
            Portugal
Phone:      + 351 91 5064998
Email:      mail@basebolportugal.com, academia@basebolportugal.com

Registered Baseball Players: 368
President:   Dr. Sandra Monteiro

National Champions (senior)
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National Champions (juniors)
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National Champions (cadets)
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National Champions (juveniles)

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Confederation of European Baseball

Romania
Federation: Federatia Romana de baseball și softball
Address:    B-dul Basarabiei 37-39, Sect 2
            Bucharest 46A
            Romania
Phone:      +40213170093
Fax:        +40213170093
Email:      federatie@baseball-softball.ro
Website:    www.baseball-softball.ro
Facebook:    Federatia Romana de Baseball si Softball

Registered Baseball Players: 504
President:    Mr. Andrei Mirescu
Sec. General: Mr. Gabriel Adumitrachioaie

National Champions (senior)
LPS ROMAN
National Champions (juniors)
CSS CALARASI
National Champions (cadets)
CSS CALARASI
National Champions (juveniles)
CSS BOTOȘANI

Russia
Federation: Russian Baseball Federation
Address:    8, Luzhnetskaya nab.,off:201
            Moscow, 119270
            Russia
Phone:      +7 495 725 4549
Email:      office@baseballrussia.ru
Website:    www.baseballrussia.ru
Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/RussianBaseballFederation/
Instagram:  @russianbaseball

Registered Members: 3.000
President:   Mr. Dmitry Kiselev
Sec.General: Mrs. Natalia Shatskaya

National Champions (senior)
Moskvich (Moscow)
National Champions U23
Moskvich (Moscow)
National Champions (juniors U18)
SSHOR№4 (Moscow)
National Champions (cadets)

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Moskvich (Moscow)
National Champion (juveniles):
Olympia (Moscow)

San Marino
Federation: Federazione Sanmarinese Baseball-Softball
Address:    Via Rancaglia 30
            47899 Serravalle
            Repubblica di San Marino
Phone:      +39-348-3389635 / +39-335-7340521
Fax:        +39-0549-941463
Email:      fsbs@omniway.sm
Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/Federazione-Sammarinese-Baseball-e-Softball-
1049137258459663/

Registered Baseball Players: 129
President:    Mr. Enea Ercolani
Sec. General: Ms. Monia Magnani

National Champions (senior)
San Marino BC
National Champions (juniors)
Titano Bears
National Champions (cadets)
San Marino BC
National Champions (juveniles)
San Marino BC

Serbia
Federation: Baseball Savez Srbije
Address:    Koče Kapetana 37
            11 000 Belgrade
            Serbia
Phone:      +381- 641966785
Email:      baseball@eunet.rs
Website:    www.baseballsrbija.com
Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/bejzbolsrbija

Registered Baseball Players: 167
President:    Mr. Milan Zonić
Sec. General: Mr. Nikola Vučević

National Champions (senior)
Beograd ‘96
National Champions (juveniles)
Beograd ‘96

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