Statistics of 1999

Baseball

Baseball European Cup, A-pool at Nettuno, Italy: Line Scores of games played by HCAW
Baseball CupWinners Cup, A-pool at Brno, Czech Republic: Line Scores of games played by Neptunus and Kinheim
Baseball World Port Tournament at Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Game stories and Line Scores of games played by Dutch national team (and more)
Baseball European Championships at Bologna, Italy: Game stories and Line Scores of games played by Dutch national team (and more)
Baseball Intercontinental Cup at Sydney, Australia: Game stories and Line Scores of games played by Dutch national team (and more)

Softball Women Challenge Series at The Netherlands: Line Scores of games played between The Netherlands and Australia
Softball Women Haarlem Softball Week at Haarlem, The Netherlands: Line Scores of games played by Dutch national team
Softball Women Olympic Qualifying Tournament at Parma, Italy: Line Scores of games played by Dutch national team

Marcel Joost on Saturday, May 15, 1999 became the first player in Dutch baseball history to collect his 1000th career basehit. The veteran of Kinheim accomplished the feat in the bottom of the first inning, when he lined a 1-0 pitch of Twins pitcher Daan Castien through the infield. The hit highlighted a ten-run first inning by Kinheim, which won the game 13-3.

After Daniel de Haan singled and was sacrificed to second, Giel ten Bosch homered and Raymond Hofer walked, setting the scene for Joost's historic hit. After Joost connected, the game was stopped by the umpiring crew, as Joost was honored by Theo Reitsma, the President of the Royal Dutch Baseball and Softball Association, Frits Huizinga, the Vice-President of Kinheim, and Ger Janssen, the head coach of opponent Twins. After being congratulated by his teammates and coaches, the game continued as a wild first inning unfolded. After Joost's hit, Cees Lammerts reached base on an error, then Jeffrey Verbij hit a grand slam homerun, before Coen Lammerts grounded out. Toine Jager and Daniel de Haan followed with back-to-back homeruns, marking the end of Twins-starter Castien. His reliever Arny Fernandes gave up a hit to Paul Morel and then Giel ten Bosch tied a record by hitting his second homerun of the inning, before Hofer was the final out of the inning, grounding to the short stop. In the inning eleven batters came to the plate, ten runs were scored, and eight hits were registered, including five homeruns.

In the second inning, Marcel Joost had a lead-off double, his 1001st career hit. He finished the game going 2-for-4. Later, in the sixth, Ten Bosch hit his third homerun of the game and Verbij hit his second to end the game in the seventh because of the ten-run-difference-rule.
For Twins, Serge Artsen homered in the fourth.

The 38-year old Marcel Joost is in his twentieth season in the Dutch big leagues and holds numerous league and all-time records, including games played, runs scored, RBI's, hits, doubles, triples, homeruns and batting average. He also played the most games (153) for the Dutch national team, including participations in the Olympic Games in Seoul (1988) and Atlanta (1996).

Joost started his career with the Amsterdam Pirates (now called Amsterdam Expos). After the 1978 season he moved to Haarlem Nicols, with whom he made his debut in 1979 and also debuted in the Dutch Major League. Joost played thirteen seasons for Haarlem Nicols, with the excemption of the 1989 season. Earlier that year he announced his retirement, but came out of it a year later to start a comeback and continued to play for another ten seasons since then. In 1993 Joost went from Nicols to another Haarlem-club, Kinheim, with whom he's playing now seventh season.

In 1988, Joost reached the 500-hit mark, when he singled off American Sparta-pitcher Jim Hovorka, who's now the pitching coach of the Dutch national baseball-team. Two years ago, on May 10, Joost connected for basehit number 900 off Erik Lommerde, who then played for Hoofddorp Pioniers.

(May 15)
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Final Standings 1999 Season
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Final Standings 1999
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Final Standings 1999
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Leo Buiteman (right) was named Softball Coach of the Year. It was the second time a coach award was presented to softball coaches.
In 1999, Buiteman was active as head coach of Schiedam in the First Division.
Buiteman, who also served as manager and coach of the national junior softball team for a few years, guided Schiedam to the First Division championship leading to promotion. With that result, Schiedam will return to the Dutch big league next year, after a long absence.

Bill Arce (left) was awarded the Leen Volkerijk Award. The award is presented annually to persons, who have made big contributions to the development and education of the game in The Netherlands and is named after former club and national team coach Leen Volkerijk, who passed away in 1993 and was a frontrunner in the development-area.
Arce got the award for his long contribution in this field for more than thirty years. Arce, who was the Dutch national team manager in 1963 and 1971, conducted a lot of clinics over the years and is an annual visitor to international events. For the last sixteen years he has made a major contribution in the organization of the annual European Baseball and Softball Clinics in The Netherlands.

For the first time a similar award was given for softball. The award is named after former national team manager Nol Houtkamp, who coached the national squad for a record sixteen years.
The first Nol Houtkamp Award was presented to Bram van der Werf (right), who served as pitching coach for all national softball-teams over the years since the seventees.
Van der Werf is still active as a pitching instructor for national youth teams as well as the clubteam of Terrasvogels, which is the most succesful Dutch softball-team and this year again won the Dutch championship.

(December 13)
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