The European Baseball Coaches Association is holding its annual EBCA Convention from November 7 to 9 in Prague, Czech Republic. The Best Western Premier Hotel Majestic Plaza is hosting the convention. Mister-Baseball.com as usual is going to introduce the speakers at the baseball clinic:
EBCA 2014 Prague Speakers
Martin Brunner
Martin Brunner is well known in German and European Baseball as pitching coach of the Buchbinder Legionaere Regensburg, head of the Regensburg academy, coach instructor and head coach of the Bavarian regional selections.
After concluding his active career following the 1996 season Martin Brunner became a coach. The 40-year-old quickly moved up the ladder and became sport director of the Bavarian Baseball and Softball Federation. Under his leadership professional structures got installed and developed in Bavaria. With nine titles overall the Bavarian Junior Team is the record title holder at German national championships.
In 2002 Brunner founded the Regensburg Baseball Academy with dormitory. With his guidance the first baseball academy became the most successful academy program in European Baseball. Up to now ten athletes of the Regensburg Baseball Academy signed contracts with several MLB organizations.
In the German Baseball-Bundesliga Brunner has been working as pitching coach since the 1997 season and also had stints as manager of the Buchbinder Legionaere (2001, 2006/2007). The Austria native has won five German Championships and six German Cup titles.
Brunner also can look back at 14 years of experience as coach and instructor at the Minor and Major League level (mostly in Spring Training). He already worked for the Atlanta Braves, Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox, Seattle Mariners and Los Angeles Dodgers.
Since 2001 he has been a coaching instructor in the Bavarian Baseball and Softball Federation. In this position he received numerous invitations as convention speaker in Europe and in the United States. In Regensburg he organized the DBV Convention for ten years.