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Germany national baseball team

national sports team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ571468 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Germany national baseball team is the national baseball team for Germany. They are a contender for the European Baseball Championship, and have competed in the Baseball World Cup. Jendrick Speer is the manager, since March 2023.

Results and fixtures

The following is a list of professional baseball match results currently active in the latest version of the WBSC World Rankings, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

Legend

Win

Lose

Void or postponed

Fixture

2026

2025

2022

2021

2019

2018

Current roster

2016 team

Roster for 2016 World Baseball Classic Qualifiers.

Manager: Garth Iorg

Coaches: Willie Upshaw, Dennis Cook, Martin Helmig, Troy Williams.

Previous team

Roster for 2012 World Baseball Classic Qualifiers.

Manager: Erich Kittlaus

Coaches: Terry Abbott, Justin Pope, Gene Roof, Troy Williams.

International tournament results

World Baseball Classic

Baseball World Cup

1972 : 16th

1973 : 11th

2007 : 14th

2009 : 17th

2011 : 15th

European Baseball Championship

Team Germany competed in the 2019 European Baseball Championship, and came in 6th. Among the players who competed for it were Donald Lutz and Markus Solbach.

Editorial summary

“Germany national baseball team” enters the record as national sports team. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Germany, national and baseball can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023, 2026, 2025, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Germany, national and baseball.
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“Germany national baseball team” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Germany, national and baseball provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q571468. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2023, 2026, 2025 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Germany national baseball team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.