A precursor to the Baseball-Bundesliga was founded between 1951, with the Stuttgart Phillies winning the inaugural national championship.

The league claims that in 1990, there were 2000 baseball players in Germany, while that number has grown to exceed 30,000 today.

[7][8] A motion to reduce the league from 16 to 12 teams was denied by a Competition Commission established by the DBV prior to a general meeting of all the baseball clubs in Germany in Frankfurt am Main on 13 November 2010.

[9] The regular season for the 1st Bundesliga is split into two different sub-divisions, Nord (North) and Süd (South) each having 8 teams.

Bundesliga play in an interleague round with subsequent play-offs for the German championship, while the other teams in each group determine possible relegation in the play-downs.

Game 5 is played at the better regular season team again if needed which crowns the German Champions (Deutscher Meister).