Netherlands national baseball team
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The Netherlands national baseball team is a national team of Netherlands and is controlled by the Koninklijke Nederlanse Baseball en Softball Bond. It represents the nation in senior-level men's international competition. The team is a member of the CEB. The Dutch national team has won over two-thirds of the European Championships they have competed in and have won the past five in a row (through 2007). The people who have played for the Dutch national team in the most games have been Raily Legito, Dirk van 't Klooster, Marcel Joost and Johnny Balentina.
Among the bigger Dutch upsets have been wins over Cuba in the 2000 Olympics and 2007 Baseball World Cup and the Dominican Republic twice in a row in the 2009 World Baseball Classic.
[edit] Members of the national team who also played in Major League Baseball
- Wladimir Balentien (2004 Olympics)
- Roger Bernadina (2007 European Championship through 2007 Baseball World Cup)
- Ivanon Coffie (2003 Baseball World Cup through 2007 Baseball World Cup)
- Yurendell de Caster (2003 European Championship through 2009 Baseball World Cup)
- Radhames Dykhoff (2000 Olympics through 2001 Baseball World Cup (maybe others)
- Robert Eenhoorn (1988 Baseball World Cup through 2000 Olympics)
- Rikkert Faneyte (1987 European Championship through 2000 Olympics)
- Jair Jurrjens (2006 World Baseball Classic)
- Andruw Jones (2006 World Baseball Classic)
- Eugène Kingsale (2003 Baseball World Cup through 2009 Baseball World Cup)
- Calvin Maduro (2003 Baseball World Cup through 2006 World Baseball Classic)
- Shairon Martis (2006 World Baseball Classic through 2008 Olympics)
- Hensley Meulens (2000 Olympics through 2002 Intercontinental Cup)
- Ralph Milliard (1999 Intercontinental Cup through 2004 Olympics)
- Sidney Ponson (2009 World Baseball Classic)
- Randall Simon (2006 World Baseball Classic through 2009 Baseball World Cup)
- Rick Vanden Hurk (2009 World Baseball Classic)
- Win Remmerswaal (1973 European Championship)
[edit] Partial list of managers
- 1960-1962 Ron Fraser
- 1963 Bill Arce
- 1964 Archie Allen
- 1965 Glenn Gostick
- 1966 Howard Fetz
- 1967 Hal Smeltzly
- 1968 Bill Allhouse
- 1971 Smeltzly, Arce
- 1972-1973 Fraser
- 1974-1978 Ernie Myers
- 1981-1984 Jim Stoeckel
- 1984-1986 Harvey Shapiro
- 1987 Pat Murphy
- 1988 Tom Petroff
- 1989-1991 Jim Stoeckel
- 1992-2000 Jan-Dick Leurs
- 2000 Pat Murphy
- 2001-2008 Robert Eenhoorn; Davey Johnson interim for part of 2003
- 2009 Rod Delmonico
[edit] Pitching Coaches
- Until 1975 No pitching coach
- 1975-1978 Leen Volkerijk
- 1979-1980 Jan-Dick Leurs
- 1981-1983 No pitching coach
- 1984 Jan-Dick Leurs
- 1985-1988 Leen Volkerijk
- 1989-1991 No official pitching coach; Charles Urbanus Jr. unofficial
- 1992-1997 No official pitching coach; manager Jan-Dick Leurs handled those duties
- 1998-1999 Jim Hovorka
- 1999-2000 Bernie Beckman
- 2001-2002 Brian Farley
- 2002-2005 Steve Janssen
- 2005 Brian Farley
- 2006 World Baseball Classic Bob Welch
- 2006-2008 Brian Farley
- 2009 World Baseball Classic Bert Blyleven
- 2009 Baseball World Cup Jim Stoeckel
