(Story Marco Stoovelaar)
 Professional European Baseball League founded
Nederlands
 AMSTERDAM (Neth.) -
Today (Friday, May 8), a meeting with representatives of San Marino Baseball (San Marino), Rouen Huskies (France), Vaessen Pioniers and Curaçao Neptunus (both Netherlands) resulted in the founding of the European Association of Professional Baseball, which aims to start a new league called Euro League Baseball (ELB) as soon as 2016.
...Attending the inauguration meeting in Amsterdam were (left to right)...
...Jerry van den Oever, Owen Ozanich, Wim van den Hurk, Jan van der Sande,...
...Mauro Mazzotti, Keino Perez, Co Haspels and Peter van 't Klooster...
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This was the first line of press release which was issued on Friday-evening, regarding the founding of the professional European Baseball League.
In the release it was mentioned that Co Haspels, Peter van 't Klooster (both Pioniers), Jerry van den Oever (Neptunus), Keino Perez, Owen Ozanich (both Rouen) and Mauro Mazzotti (San Marino) were present at the inaugural meeting, joining Wim van den Hurk (Initiator and President), Jan van der Sande (Press Officer) and Jan Maarten Kops (Initiator) in Amsterdam.
Non-attending members were CB Barcelona (Spain), Templiers-Sénart (France), Buchbinder Regensburg Legionäre (Germany) and CBS Sant Boi (Spain).
The ELB mentions that Unipol Bologna (Italy) and Heidenheim Heideköpfe (Germany) are possible future members and that their joining is expected soon.
In the statement, the ELB said that during the meeting the members discussed the proposed format of the league, its structure, team roster expansion, budgets and logistics.
Although a lot of hurdles has to be overcome, all participants were unanimous about the needs for new developments in European baseball.
The Association will now start to inform National and International Federations about its plans.
(May 8)
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