The club was established in 1992 as the baseball arm of Heidenheimer Sportbund (SB), a parent organization that contains several clubs in different sports, and played its first season in 1993 in the Baden-Württemberg District League.

[1] The team's name means "heathland's head," a reference to Heidenheim's coat of arms.

The team mascot is Heiko, a life-sized teddy bear made by the Margarete-Steiff-Company.

It has fixed seating of 500 and a grassy picnic area that can accommodate an additional 2,500 spectators.

[6] The team claims an average attendance of 350, with a peak home attendance of 1,500 on August 21, 1994 against the Stuttgart Reds, prior to the construction of the new ballpark.