Geschichte des Vereins

Geschichte des Vereins

We (Stock City Cubs) are a baseball club with around 50 members founded by a couple of friends as one of the first clubs in Austria in Stockerau in 1991.

1991

First friendly game (Stock City Cubs vs. Schwechat Blue Bats); foundation of the „1. Stockerauer Base- und Softballverein“.

1992

First participitation in an official league („Regionalliga Ost“); advancing to the second „Bundesliga Ost“

1993

Cubs win championship title of the second “Bundesliga Ost”; beginning of the construction of “Cubs Field”

1994

Completion of the “Cubs Field; official opening of the baseball field with 2.500 spectators, four Hall-of-Fame legends of the New York Yankees and TV coverage

1995

Hosting of the junior European Championship with about 4.000 spectators

1996

First American coach (Bob Windows); 2nd BL East training camp in Texas

1997

Coach Billy Piela (USA); first youth team; training camp in New Jersey

1998

Coach Steve Gritts (USA); hosting of B-Pool EM with around 7.500 spectators; training camp in Miami (Fort Lauderdale) with the Montreal Expos

1999

Coach Martin Langlois (Canada); Cubs and Ragdolls (softball) are promoted to the first national league; three young talented teams (students, adolescence and juniors) of the Cubs compete in the championship

2000

Cubs and Ragdolls play in the highest Austrian league

2001

Cubs 2 win the championship of the Regionalliga Ost

2002

Cubs become runner-up of the „Baseball Bundesliga“ (BBL); call-up of numerous young talents for national teams

2003

Cubs win the BBL and are again promoted to the first national league ABL

2004-2006

Solid perfomance in the highest league; participitation of many Cubs players in the national team; Martin Langlois leaves the Cubs to become national team coach; his successor will be Brett Cumiskey (USA) in the 2006 season; then Jim Malec (USA)

2007

Relegation of the Cubs to the BBL after a disappointing year

2008

After a fantastic BBL season (import player Reed H. Brown (USA)) Cubs are promoted to the ABL again; Robert Buchelt (former Vienna Bucks) becomes coach of the Stock City Cubs

2009

U15 become runner-up at the Austrian championships and second junior league 

2010

U15 win the Austrian championship

2012

U10 reach the semi-finals of the children’s league

2013

Six Cubs players compete in the men’s B-Pool EM in Vienna as national players; Cubs 2 wins the championship of the „Landesliga Ost“ and are promoted to the „Regionalliga Ost“

2014

1st School Cup in Stockerau; for the first time in their club history the Cubs compete in the ABL Championships Playoff for the title of the national champion and are defeated by the later national champion; U15 wins the junior league title

2015

Four Cubs players in the men’s national team to become B-Pool vice-European champion; a Cubs youth player becomes MVP at the Junior EM in the Czech Republic; 2nd School Cup in Stockerau; U10 Cubbies/Lions team win the children’s championship title

2016

3rd School Cup in Stockerau

2017

4th School Cup in Stockerau

2018

8th place in the BLA; 5th School Cup in Stockerau

2019

Voluntary relegation to the second national league in order to focus on the sustainable formation of young talents; foundation of the section „American Sports“ and cooperation with Martin Langlois to maintain the children with “English and Sports”; three Cubs and one former Cubs player were in the starting line-up of the first win of an A-Pool European Championship game; 6th School Cup in Stockerau. 

2020

Cubs I win 2. BLO, the second highest league in Austria, Cubs II finish in fifth place in the Landesliga Ost.

2021

Cubs I defend the title of champions of the 2. BLO, the second highest league in Austria. The farm team Cubs II after a rough season reached eighth place from ten teams in the Landesliga Ost. Wolfgang Talir resigned as president after 15 years in office; election of a new board consisting of 7 members under the leadership of Christoph Assmann.

2022
The Cubs I once again dominated 2. BLO, finishing the regular season with 22 wins and just 2 losses. As the top team of the regular season, they advanced to the playoffs, where they ultimately fell short of winning the title. The farm team Cubs II also made it to the playoffs, where it ended up in fourth place in the Landesliga Ost. After a two year long break due to the coronavirus, the traditional school baseball cup in Stockerau was finally held again this year. It was already the seventh edition!

2023
In order to compete against more teams from more regions of Austria the ABF and the teams agreed upon a league reform which led to the so called National League. It featured a mix of established second-division teams and clubs relegated from the Baseball Bundesliga last year, whose top teams faced the bottom-ranked Bundesliga teams in the playoffs. The two conferences of the National League ran parallelly to the 2. BLO. While the First Team was flawless in the new league and won all of its games, in the 2.BLO the Cubs I could only finish in 6th position. In the playoffs our players reached third place.
Cubs II were the fifth best team in this year’s Landesliga Ost competition.
8th School Cup.

2024
After a strong start in the 2. Bundesliga Ost, the Cubs struggled with inconsistency, losing several close and crucial games. Instead of playoffs, they played placement games against the Vienna Wanderers 2, finishing last in their group amid injury setbacks.
In the Landesliga Ost, the Cubs 2 also missed the playoffs but benefited from new players.
After most of the board of the club stepped down, an extraordinary general assembly was held to decide the Cubs’ future, approving both a statute change and a streamlined board. Patrick Eder was appointed as the new president, supported by Holger Starke as treasurer and Raphael Kavallar as secretary, with the former board continuing to offer guidance during the transition. Decision was made that there will be no Cubs 2 as long as the club has not enough players to field two adult teams.
9th School Cup

2025
The regular season of the 2. Bundesliga Ost remained exciting for Stockerau until the final round, but after two heavy losses to the Vienna Metrostars 2 our team could not grab the final playoff tickets. In the combined standings of Group A and Group B the Cubs were ranked 6th.
1oth Anniversary of the School Cup and first Baseball Olympic Games at the Stock City Cubs baseball field.