Baseball in the Netherlands

[Mistfit]

They could always convert a football pitch for the occasion.. Here they will occasionally play on converted American Football fields..

[Shabbaman]

Originally Posted by Kingreno

The problem is, we have no venue to host a big match in Holland... In Japan they have plenty of huge stadiums for baseball. I think the biggest here has 2000 seats?

Actually, someone is building a pretty large baseball venue in Haarlem.

[Kingreno]

Originally Posted by Mistfit

They could always convert a football pitch for the occasion.. Here they will occasionally play on converted American Football fields..

I guess the Olympic Stadium could be converted. Not easy though.

@Shabba: The Pim Moeller Stadium will have 2.500 seats, so says wiki.

[ProPain]

Originally Posted by Mistfit

They could always convert a football pitch for the occasion.. Here they will occasionally play on converted American Football fields..

I dont think the big football clubs will give permission to make humps on their fields and add gravel patches. That will sound like sacrilege to them.

Also I doubt if you have enough width when converting a football pitch. Otoh RBC Roosendaal went broke last season, so you have an empty stadium and noone playing football, easy to convert. Still I doubt if many people will come to Roosendaal, Haarlem & Rotterdam are the most logical spots imo.

We could convert 'De Kuip' in Rotterdam though.... It already use for concerts as well and for the so calles football Feyenoord plays it really doesnt matter if yo have a few humps and messed up patches in your field.

[Shabbaman]

Originally Posted by Kingreno

I guess the Olympic Stadium could be converted. Not easy though.

@Shabba: The Pim Moeller Stadium will have 2.500 seats, so says wiki.

It does have 2500 seats. But I was wrong, it's not Haarlem but Hoofddorp (which, for those not native to Holland, could be considered a suburb of Amsterdam, which in turn IS NOT the capital of Denmark). It's supposed to get 25.000 seats. It doesn't sound like a viable plan to me, but hey, I'm just in engineering.

[ProPain]

Originally Posted by Shabbaman

It does have 2500 seats. But I was wrong, it's not Haarlem but Hoofddorp (which, for those not native to Holland, could be considered a suburb of Amsterdam, which in turn IS NOT the capital of Denmark). It's supposed to get 25.000 seats. It doesn't sound like a viable plan to me, but hey, I'm just in engineering.

Well, I think building a 25.000 seat baseball stadium is a viable plan. Now getting that stadium running profitable on the other hand, not so viable

Seriously a 25K seat baseball stadium. I know a lot of football clubs that aren't able to fill 25K seats on a saturday evening, not a chance this baseball stadium will get decent occupancy rates.

[Shabbaman]

I'm puzzled by it as well, but it's not a BS plan. With the american league games and European cup games they expect to sell all the seats, which isn't such a ridiculous proposition. But I don't think the occupancy rate in the stadium in Haarlem is close to 100% during league games, so I'd say this stadium would be pretty empty. The stadium could be used for other events, but still... it wouldn't be profitable.

[barbu1977]

Aren't there any cricket stadium in NL? They can probably be converted easily

[ProPain]

Cricket is tiny in the Netherlands, a lot smaller than baseball. Dont know what kind of venues dutch cricket clubs have but I guess they'll be a lot smaller than the baseball stadiums.

[barbu1977]

Hoofddorp indeed:
http://www.mister-baseball.com/mlb-n...e-game-europe/

newly to be built stadium for the Vaessen Pioniers in Hoofddorp will be ready in 2014 for three official Major League Baseball games. To this purpose the stadium’s capacity will be extended temporarily to 30,000.