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Fri Nov 28, 2003, 02:36am
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As the Username indicates, Yes I'm dutch!
Let me help AlabamaBlue. Both in Belgium as in the Netherlands we play softball. In Belgium they have 2 orginastaions, one for Wallonië and ond for Vlaanderen (the french-spoken part and dutch-speaking) The level in Belgium is (saddly to say) much lower than in Holland. The dutch ladies-team is top 3 in Europe (Used to be the number 1) and the men-team are going to Christchurch for the WorldChamp's in january as Europe's Best. And the Netherlands are close by; there where Belgium ends, starts the Netherlands. Execpt there where you cross the border with Germanië, Luxemburg or France. It is a real small country. Though there is an langue-war between Wallonië and Vlaanderen. One won't speak dutch, the other won't speak french, most do speak english. As in Holland you can use dutch, english, french and/or german. Spanish and Russian are rare spoken... But I guess Dutch should not be to hard to learn: all of our children speak it... Once I saw an umpire on wooden shoe's (klompen), this was early 80-ties in a vey low ladies-softball-competition. (My own dad, was ask to ump when he was only a spectator. In the garden he uses "klompen". Dutch season opens in March/April and ends in September/October. Need to know more, ask... see also http://www.knbsb.nl (dutch base- and softball org.) http://www.bubs.nl (dutch umpire and scorer ***. for base- and softball) 
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