ASV Herzogenaurach season-by-season performance of the club: The Herzogenaurach derby in the "Bayernliga" and "Landesliga": The club had a couple of players in its ranks who later played in the Bundesliga, the most well-known of those being: ASV Herzogenaurach The ASV Herzogenaurach is a German association football club from the city of Herzogenaurach, Bavaria. The history of the club is strongly intertwined with the Sports equipment manufacturer Adidas, then just a local company and sponsor of the ASV and its rivalry to 1. FC Herzogenaurach, which was sponsored by another local company, Puma. Formed in 1919 under the name Sportclub Pfeil, it
Baseball in Germany Baseball in Germany Baseball in Germany started in 1936, with the first official baseball game being played at the 1936 Olympics. After World War II, baseball was popularized by American soldiers who were stationed in Germany. Today, baseball is a minor sport in Germany, although the country is still home to one of Europe's biggest baseball communities, with around 30,000 active players. The national governing body is the Deutscher Baseball und Softball Verband (German Baseball and Softball Federation), and the highest baseball league is the 1. Baseball Bundesliga. Max Kepler is currently the only German-developed player in Major League Baseball.