DSS is a baseball and softball club based in Haarlem, the Netherlands. Since 2020, DSS has fielded a combined team with fellow Haarlem baseball club

Kinheim Kinheim is a baseball and softball club based in Haarlem, the Netherlands. Kinheim's top baseball team plays in the Honkbal Hoofdklasse, the top level of professional baseball in the Netherlands. The club's most successful period was in the ...

in the

Honkbal Hoofdklasse The Honkbal Hoofdklasse ( Dutch for ''Major League Baseball'') is the highest level of professional baseball in the Netherlands. It is an eight-team league overseen by the Royal Netherlands Baseball and Softball Federation (KNBSB). Games are pl ...

, the top Dutch baseball league. DSS was unable to participate in the Hoofdklasse due to financial difficulties, and Kinheim lost a relegation playoff to DSS in 2019, 3 games to 2. The partnership enabled the combined clubs to continue fielding a team from Haarlem in the Hoofdklasse. The two clubs had both played their home games at the complex that includes . On 14 August 2024, DSS and Kinheim jointly announced a change to their operating agreement beginning in 2025, with DSS competing in the lower Eerste Klasse while Kinheim continued to have a team in the Hoofdklasse. The clubs stated that the Royal Netherlands Baseball and Softball Federation (KNBSB), the national governing body for baseball, supported the change. DSS's top women's

softball Softball is a Variations of baseball, variation of baseball, the difference being that it is played with a larger ball, on a smaller field, and with only underhand pitches (where the ball is released while the hand is primarily below the ball) ...

team competes in the Dutch Derde Klasse. The softball team has won the Dutch national championship eight times.

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Sports clubs and teams in Haarlem Baseball teams in the Netherlands Softball teams in the Netherlands Honkbal Hoofdklasse teams {{Softball-team-stub