The Berlin Sluggers , officially named "Sluggers eV Berlin", is a baseball club founded on October 1, 1985 in Berlin , Germany , making it the oldest baseball club in Berlin. The first men's team played a few seasons in the first division of the German Baseball Bundesliga in the early nineties and was promoted again for the 2011 season. However, though the team qualified to advance to the first division in 2006, it was unable to do so due to financial constraints.
6-604: The Sluggers play their home games at Paul Rusch Stadium in the Buckow neighborhood of Berlin. It is the only baseball-only field in Berlin. Max Kepler-Rozycki , who signed with the Minnesota Twins in 2009 for a signing bonus of $ 750,000, the standing record for a European player, is a former Slugger. The full club consists of 6 teams: Additionally, the club is developing a team for children 4 to 7 years old, which it dubs
12-647: A restaurant. Situated in the southern suburb of Berlin, Buckow is the only Ortsteil counting an exclave (Buckow-II), separated from mainland by the Gropiusstadt . The other Berliner localities bordering with Buckow are Britz , Rudow , Lichtenrade and Mariendorf (both in Tempelhof-Schöneberg district). Buckow also has a boundary with the Brandenburger municipality of Schönefeld ( Dahme-Spreewald district), and its residential area
18-510: Is a locality ( Ortsteil ) within the Berlin borough ( Bezirk ) of Neukölln . The village was founded in 1373 by German settlers probably at the place of an earlier Wends ' village of the name Buk (a Beech tree) spelled along with its patronymic suffix -ow . Until 1920 Buckow was a municipality of the former Teltow district, merged into Berlin with the " Greater Berlin Act ". From 1961 to 1989 its borders with Brandenburg were crossed by
24-533: Is contiguous with the civil parish of Großziethen . Buckow is divided into 2 zones ( Ortslagen ): The locality is not served by urban railways, but nearest stations ( Johannisthaler Chaussee and Lipschitzallee , on the U-Bahn line U7 ), located in the Gropiusstadt, are not too far from the locality. It is served by the bus lines M11, M44, X11, 112, 171, 172, 179, 272 and 736. The X71 bus travels between
30-549: The Berlin Wall due to its position in the boundaries of West Berlin with East Germany . In Goldammerstraße 34 is situated an historical smock mill , the Jungfernmühle , one of the oldest of Berlin. It was built in 1753 (or 1757) and it has only shutter wing and wind rose mockups without functions. Active until 1980 to ground grain into flour, it was the last mill used in the city and today its walls accommodate
36-589: The "Mini Sluggers." The club claims 85 members as of 2010 and charges a membership fee of €48 for members under 18 and €57 for members over 18 years of age. This article about sports in Germany is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a baseball team in Europe is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Buckow (Berlin) Buckow ( German pronunciation: [ˈbʊkoː] or [ˈbuːkoː] )
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