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Baseball in the Netherlands started in 1911, having been introduced to the country by English teacher J.C.G Grasé of Amsterdam, following a holiday to America. The first professional baseball league (now the Honkbal Hoofdklasse) began in 1922. The national governing body for baseball is the Royal Netherlands Baseball and Softball Federation (Dutch: Koninklijke Nederlandse Baseball en Softball Bond).[1]
The Netherlands National Baseball Team is consistently ranked in the top ten of the WBSC World Rankings and has won the European Baseball Championship twenty-four[2] times. Although baseball is a minority sport within the Netherlands proper, it is the main sport of the Dutch overseas territories in the Caribbean (the former Netherlands Antilles).[3]
- ^ "In Netherlands, Soccer Is King, but Baseball Eyes Crown". The New York Times. 21 May 2008.
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- ^ Visser, Nadette De (31 October 2015). "The Unknown Caribbean Island Breeding Baseball Stars". The Daily Beast.