Baseball was introduced in Belgium in the 1920s when American and Japanese sailors played the sport on the Antwerp docks.

[2] In April 1953, Belgium was one of the founding members of the Confederation of European Baseball (now WBSC Europe), alongside France, Italy, Spain and West Germany.

[3] The Royal Belgian Baseball and Softball Federation was established in 1975.

In 1976, the KBBSF/FRBBS was one of the founding members of the European Softball Federation, the others being France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and West Germany.

[4] Today, the KBBSF/FRBBS has 4100 members, over 2900 active players and 45 clubs.