Kinheim is a baseball and

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club based in Haarlem, the Netherlands. Kinheim's top baseball team plays in the

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, the top level of professional baseball in the Netherlands. The club's most successful period was in the 1990s, when it reached the

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in five consecutive seasons from 1992 to 1996. The team lost four of its national championships but became Dutch champions in 1994, beating

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3–2 in a five-game series. In 2006, Kinheim won the Hoofdklasse and the national cup trophy, the KNBSB-Beker. After beating

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in the playoffs to qualify for the

2006 Holland Series The 2006 Holland Series were held from 21 September to 1 October 2006 between the two Dutch play-off winners Corendon Kinheim and Konica Minolta Pioniers. The first team to win 3 games in the best-of-five-games series would become Dutch champi ...

,2006 Holland Series
, at honkbalsite.com Kinheim won the series 3–2 against the

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After its victorious 2006 season, Kinheim qualified for the 2007 European Cup in

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, which it also won. Kinhein finished third in the

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in 1995 and

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, where it bested fellow Dutch team

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. Kinheim again won the Holland Series in 2007, defeating the Pioniers in a three-game sweep. Kinheim abruptly withdrew from the Hoofdklasse at the end of 2016, citing a lack of players for the top Dutch league. The club qualified for the promotion/relegation playoffs in 2018 and 2019 but lost both years and could not return to the Hoofdklasse. Starting in 2020, Kinheim fielded a combined team with fellow Haarlem club DSS named

DSS/Kinheim DSS/Kinheim was a baseball team in Haarlem, the Netherlands that competes in the Honkbal Hoofdklasse. The team is a combination of two Haarlem sports clubs, DSS and Kinheim, which merged in 2020 after DSS had defeated Kinheim in a promotion/rel ...

. DSS defeated Kinheim in the relegation playoff, but DSS could not participate in the league due to financial difficulties. The partnership allowed the combined clubs to continue fielding a team from Haarlem in the Hoofdklasse. In 2024, Kinheim and DSS announced a change to their operating agreement. Beginning in 2025, Kinheim would compete in the Hoofdklasse and DSS would compete in the lower Eerste Klasse. The two clubs stated that the Royal Netherlands Baseball and Softball Federation (KNBSB), the national governing body for baseball, supported the change. On 16 October 2024, Kinheim announced Milan Lammerts would coach the team in 2025. He had played for DSS/Kinheim in 2021 and 2022.

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