Georg Bull was born 1964 in Mannheim, Germany. As a catcher and third baseman, who also played for the German national team, he was one of the best players of his time, winning national titles with the Mannheim Amigos (1983, 1992), Trier Cardinals (1996) and Untouchables Paderborn (2001, 2002). He was the first German player to play in South Africa and the Dominican Republic.

As a player-coach and manager at the club level Bull was responsible for the Berlin Sluggers, Berlin Bats, Strausberg Sun Warriors and Mannheim Tornados in the Baseball-Bundesliga. As youth and junior coach he won national titles with the Untouchables and the Tornados. 1994 he founded the Baseballworld Strausberg and 2003 the German Baseball Academy (DBA, Deutsche Baseball Akademie). Since 2005 Bull has been the head coach of the German U15 national team. He led them to a silver medal and two bronze medals at European Championships before winning the title for the first time in 2015. In 2012, 2014 and 2018 they participated at the 15U Baseball World Cups in Chihuahua and then in Sinaloa, Mexico and Panama respectively. With the DBA he won the COLT/PONY European Qualifiers several times and participated as first German team at the World Series in the United States or at the World Boys Baseball tournament in Japan in 2015 where he led team Germany to the semi-finals. 2016 Georg Bull started the german U 12 national team program and won the European Championship with the U 12 first time participating. In 2017 he won the European championship U 15 beating all top nations in front of high MLB officials.

Bull has been a speaker at various Baseball clinics including the DBV/ISG Convention as well as at the EBCA convention in the past or worked with different and international organisations like the National team program of Israel just recently and has an excellent reputation as coach in Germany, Europe and worldwide and is well connected. The European Baseball Coaches Association (EBCA) honored him in 2010 with the EBCA Career Achievement Award. In 2015 he was inducted in the German Baseball Hall of Fame.

WORK EXPERIENCE

  • Founded German Baseball Academy – 2003
  • Junior Champions Coach – 2003 to 2015
  • Managed German entries to Pony League World Series – 2003 to 2015
  • German U-15 National Team Coach – 2005 to present (Achieved 1st European Title – 2015, another one 2017)
  • German U 12 National team Coach – 2015 to present (Achieved 1st European Title 2016)

BASEBALL ACHIEVEMENTS

WEST GERMANY – Player Achievements

  • European Junior Championship – 1979
    • Batting: .294/.333/.412 and fielding .815
    • 6 runs and 7 steals in 5 games
    • Led the team in swipes and tied for run lead

MANNHEIM AMIGOS – Player Achievements

  • Bundesliga-1 Title – 1983
  • Bundesliga-1 Title – 1992

GERMANY NATIONAL BASEBALL TEAM – Player Achievements

  • European B-Level Championship – 1992
    • Batting: .400/.455/.900
    • Ranked 3rd on team for home runs and RBIs: 3 home runs, 9 runs, and 11 RBI
  • European Championship – 1993
    • Batting: .355/.417/.387 clip and fielding .930 (2nd best average on Germany Team)
    • Lead the team with 11 hits
  • European Championship – 1995
    • Batting: .348/.400/.348 and fielding .906
    • 5 runs and 7 RBIs in 7 games
    • Ranked 2nd on the team with 8 hits (1 behind Sven Huhnholz)
    • Lead the team in RBIs (1 ahead of Huhnholz)

BERLIN SLUGGERS – Player Achievements

  • Bundesliga Championship – 1994
    • Batting: .385/.491/.549
    • Was 9-2 with a save and a 5.63 ERA on the mound.
    • Ranking in northern Bundesliga-1
      • Tied for 6th with 35 hits
      • Tied for 8th with 12 doubles
      • Tied for 3rd with 36 runs
      • Ranked 10th in on base percentage (OBP)
      • Ranked 4th in earned run average (ERA)
      • Tied for 2nd in wins
      • Ranked 5th in walks plus hits per inning pitched (WHIP 1.67) in a high-scoring loop

TRIER CARDINALS – Player Achievements

  • Bundesliga Championship – 1996
    • Batting: .352/.430/.523

PADERBORN UNTOUCHABLES – Player Achievements

  • Batting: .378/.509/.567
  • 34 runs in 28 games
  • Stole 11 bases in 12 tries. (tied Stefan Pößl for 4th in runs, was 10th in OBP, tied for first in hit-by-pitch (9), was 9th in OPS (between Huhnholz and Reyes) and led all players in putouts (190).
  • Bundesliga Championship – 2001
    • Batting: .222/.286/.259
  • Batted: .378/.455/.422 – 2002 (Played main catcher for the champions. He played error-free ball and threw out an amazing 17 of 20 would-be base-stealers)

STRAUSBERG SUN WARRIORS – Player Achievements

  • Batting: .267/.340/.349 and fielding .994 – 1999
  • Ranked 3rd in the league for fielding – 1999
  • Batting: .319/.422/.449 – 2000
  • 1-0 with a 9.72 ERA – 2000

SOUTH AFRICA – Player Achievements

  • First German to play baseball in South Africa
  • Champion 1992 with VOB Silvertree

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – Player Achievements

  • First German to play baseball in Dominican Republic (Clase A)

GERMAN BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL HALL OF FAME

  • Inducted in 2015