The American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) announced their 2018 class, which gets inducted into the ABCA Hall of Fame in January. Among the 11 inductees is also Don Freeman. Besides coaching in the United States, Freeman left his mark also in European Baseball and especially Germany. After working several years as MLB Envoy Coach, he worked the past three seasons as coach with the Mainz Athletics, Munich-Haar Disciples and Berlin Flamingos, where he is expected to return next spring. With Mainz he won the German championship in 2016. He also served as assistant coach on the German National Team in the 2014 and 2016 European Championships.