The 2014 DBV Convention is taking place from January 24 to 26 at the Ahorn Sportpark in Paderborn, Germany. Registration for the baseball and softball clinics as well as the umpire and scoring training is open through convention.baseball-softball.de. Mister-Baseball.com is going to introduce the speakers in the coming days.
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. In 2012 they participated at the 15U Baseball World Cup in Mexico. With the DBA he won the COLT/PONY European Qualifiers and participated as first German team at the World Series in the United States.
Bull has been a speaker at various Baseball clinics including the DBV/ISG Convention in the past and has an excellent reputation as coach in Germany, Europe and worldwide. The European Baseball Coaches Association (EBCA) honored him in 2010 with the EBCA Career Achievement Award.
For more information about the DBV/ISG Convention 2014, please visit www.convention.baseball-softball.de.