{"id":41782,"date":"2024-05-31T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/home-run\/"},"modified":"2024-09-09T16:08:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T14:08:55","slug":"home-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/en\/home-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Run"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>The Mannheim Tornados are the oldest German baseball team and with its eleven titles they are Germany\u2019s recordholders. It is no coincidence, of course, that the team was founded in the Electorate Palatinate region. The US military forces brought the sport into the region many years ago. And made Mannheim the baseball capital of Germany. <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Things are going well for the Tornados. The T\u00fcbingen Hawks have already changed their pitcher. But to no avail. The home team beats their guests with balls flying past their heads left and right, scoring point after point. Shortly afterwards, the spectators who are seated in the shadowy wooden grandstands of the Roberto-Clemente-Field in Mannheim on this sunny spring Saturday cheer their first home run. The Tornados lead 9:0 according to the scoreboard. The players high five each other, while AC\/DC, Eminem and Sophie Ellis-Baxtor boom out of the speakers. Players and spectators alike seem to be relieved, since these double headers\u2014two games on one day that is\u2014against the team from T\u00fcbingen do not only signify the first home opener of the season, but maybe even the beginning of a new era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0054.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0054.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0054.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0054-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0054-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Off we go! After the batter hits the ball, it flies across the field with up to 200 kilometres per hour.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Tornados, founded in 1975, are the oldest baseball team in Germany and with its eleven championship titles they have been Germany\u2019s recordholders to this day. Their prime was in the 1980s, though, when they won the trophy a whopping seven times. The last time they were able to win the championship title was in 1997. Thus, time has come for a new start\u2014one that people like Christian Schuler are a byword for. He had to end his career as an active player of the Tornados after several cruciate ligament ruptures. In his position as second chairman, he has been in charge of the baseball and softball team since 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0020.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41471\" width=\"840\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0020.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0020-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0020-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Christian Schuler, second chairman of the Tornados, is spellbound as he watches his team play.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe want to create something new here,\u201d Christian says, \u201cbuild a team from within the organisation.\u201d His motto is: home-grown instead of \u201cimport players\u201d, as he calls them. The reason for this is that there is a fair amount of players from the strongholds of baseball like the US, Canada or Puerto Rico in the German baseball leagues. Joshua Wyant is such a seasonal player\u2014pitcher for the T\u00fcbingen Hawks later in the second game. He plays in Germany in the summer, and in winter he works on a horse ranch in Idaho.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These guest players can briefly raise the level of a team, as the Tornados have to painfully experience during the second game against the Hawks, yet they cost the organisation a fair amount of money. And money is something the Tornados do not have in huge numbers right now. \u201cOther venues like Regensburg, Heidenheim or Paderborn have already surpassed us by far,\u201d Christian explains. He estimates their seasonal budgets to be a mid six-figure amount. The Tornados have to make do with significantly less. They now want to turn this disadvantage into an asset by building upon their own talents.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wenn ich den Harzgeruch vom Schl\u00e4ger in der Nase habe, dann geht f\u00fcr mich der Fr\u00fchling los<\/p>\n<cite>Julian Prade<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of these home-grown talents is just trotting off the field towards the changing room. The so-called \u201cmercy rule\u201d was put into effect, so that the game was prematurely ended by mutual agreement at a score of 17:2 for the Tornados. Like everyone else in the Tornados team, Julian Prade is an amateur player. He works as a communications manager for BASF in real life, but baseball to him is more than just a hobby. \u201cSpring starts for me when I smell the resin of the bat,\u201d Julian says enthusiastically. He started playing baseball when he was a little boy. \u201cIt was very normal for little boys and girls in Neuostheim\u2014everyone played baseball there.\u201d The 1993\/94 age-group that Julian belongs to was a strong cohort, he recounts. School and youth championships and several junior championship titles\u2014they won them all.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0025.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0025-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0025-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Home-grown in Mannheim\u2014Julian Prade started playing baseball when he was still a little boy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By now, Julian, pushing 30 years old, is one of the oldest of his team. \u201cI have been playing with many of the boys for 10 or 15 years,\u201d he reports. Training is twice a week, on top of that, there are frequently games on the weekends. \u201cWhen you are here you can take a break from your daily routines and free your mind.\u201d The team spirit extends far beyond the training. Newly-married Julian has just recently celebrated his eve-of-the-wedding-party on the Roberto-Clemente-Field. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0096.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0096.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0096.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0096-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0096-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is no coincidence that the oldest baseball team in Germany was founded in Mannheim. The \u201ccity of squares\u201d, as Mannheim is called because its streets are laid out in a grid pattern, used to be an important military base of the US army after the war. The <a href=\"http:\/\/Benjamin Franklin Village\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Benjamin Franklin Village <\/a>marked the US armed forces\u2019 largest civilian settlement located in Europe. With the \u201c6th TT Tornados\u201d\u2014the \u201cTT\u201d standing for Transportation Truck Battalion\u2014a successful baseball team had emerged from the garrison that even won the G.I. World Series, the US military championship that is, in 1949. The Americans awakened such an enthusiasm for the sport in Mannheim that Mannheim became Germany\u2019s \u201cbaseball capital\u201d. Already in the 1960s, the baseball team that was back then part of the VfR Mannheim won its first German championship titles. Later, in 1975, the Tornados were founded as an independent baseball team. Mannheim-based baseball pioneer Norbert J\u00e4ger kept the name of the G.I. team and made it thrive. Back then, many US Americans still played in the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0057.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0057.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0057.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0057-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0057-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A fast-paced game\u2014yet, baseball still is a marginal sport in Germany.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn Germany, baseball is a marginal sport and will always be so,\u201d Christian says. This is why the Tornados intend to intensify their work with children and young players and additionally put more emphasis on making baseball a family event. Entrance to home games is free. You simply walk through the historic metal gate, and you are already in the midst of it all. \u201cWe want to invite people to come here to have a pleasant afternoon,\u201d Christian explains. A baseball game as a family outing\u2014that\u2019s the idea. And indeed, the atmosphere here is more like at a cheerful afternoon barbeque party than at the SV Waldhof home games in the neighbouring Carl Benz stadium with its stirred up, adrenaline-charged vibes. This is not only due to the much smaller number of spectators. Even at the top matches of the professional league in the US, there is a relaxed kind of picknick atmosphere among spectators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0075.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0075.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0075.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0075-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0075-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Relaxed vibes at the Roberto-Clemente-Field\u2014you encounter an atmosphere like at a cheerful afternoon barbeque party rather than stirred up vibes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One thing is of utmost importance to Christian: \u201cIn the past, our focus was very much on the first men\u2019s team. We have by now changed this. We want to be perceived as an organisation comprising of all our teams.\u201d And there are plenty of them: the softball team\u2014as a baseball variant for women\u2014still plays in the national league\u2014other than the men\u2019s team. In addition to that, there is a team for schoolchildren as well as the youth and junior teams.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0089.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0089.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0089.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0089-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/WEB_Tornados_Baseballteam_27_04_2024_Foto_Torsten_Redler-0089-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second game against the T\u00fcbingen Hawks has started in the meantime. And now it is the Tornados that have to suffer. Pitcher Joshua Wyant, who now plays for the Hawks, confronts the Tornado batters with unresolvable tasks. Now and again, they swing and miss or hit a ball, but it lands out-of-bounds. After the fourth inning, the \u201cmercy rule\u201d is invoked again, but this time with the negative outcome for the Tornados\u20140:11 is the final score. \u201cOne game won, one lost,\u201d Christian sums up the day on the field. \u201cWe can build up from that. Actually, it should still be possible to achieve a position in the middle of the standings in the end.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tornados.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.tornados.de<\/a><a id=\"_msocom_1\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franzsika Meier und Ann-Sophie Behrle im selbstverwalteten Wohnheim Collegium Academicum in Heidelberg. 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