When the German national baseball team played here during the 2009 Baseball World Cup, 10,000 fans filed into sold-out auxiliary seating.įor decades, European club baseball was played on abandoned soccer fields despite the chronic dimension problems, converted by hand by dedicated amateur players who would be lucky to afford luxuries like a regulation mound, dugouts and a backstop after having to pitch in for the materials themselves. each and pack the grandstand that encases the sunken infield of the state-of-the-art Armin-Wolf-Arena to watch the German champion Buchbinder Legionaere Regensburg - or the Legionnaires - play baseball. Every spring and summer weekend, up to 3,000 spectators each pay about $11 U.S. , stands a bastion of Americana: a ballpark. They snap pictures of the 13th-century cathedral and much older town walls.īut on this side of the river, opposite that quaint European cliché The old town teems with tourists, filling up beer gardens and artisanal bratwurst joints or sauntering through cobblestone alleys so narrow that you can touch both walls if you stick your arms out. The city is situated in the heart of the southeastern German state of Bavaria, tucked up against the Czech and Austrian borders. 90 as a Roman fort on the very edge of civilization, where the empire ended and barbarian wilderness began. On the other bank lies Regensburg, a town of 130,000 that was founded in A.D.
REGENSBURG, Germany - The unmistakable crack of a Louisville Slugger rings out over the Danube, that bluest of European rivers, snaking east from here all the way to the Black Sea after splicing up Vienna and Budapest and Belgrade and Bucharest. Leander Schaerlaeckens, Contributing writer, You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser
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