As of 2024, the ABF has 47 affiliated clubs and a membership of more than 5000 athletes.

[1] The ABF is responsible for the Austria national baseball team and the Austria women's national softball team, Austrian baseball and softball youth teams, and overseeing the Austrian Baseball Bundesliga, the highest level of baseball in the country.

Baseball in Austria has its origins in the 1940s and 1950s, when United States soldiers played the sport during the Allied occupation in Vienna and Tulln an der Donau.

However, baseball practice ended after the Allies left Austria in 1955.

The first Austrian baseball championship took place in 1984 with four teams from Vienna and Linz.