Cor Wilders

Cor Wilders
Wilders with Blauw-Wit in 1950
Personal information
Date of birth (1916-06-27)27 June 1916
Date of death 24 January 1998(1998-01-24) (aged 81)
International career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1937–1946 Netherlands 8 (0)

Baseball career
Pitcher / infielder
Member of the Netherlands
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction1983

Cornelis Cor Wilders (27 June 1916 – 24 January 1998) was a Dutch baseball and association football player.[1]

As a footballer, Wilders played in eight matches for the Netherlands national football team from 1937 to 1946.[2] He scored an own goal in a blowout loss to Belgium in 1940.[3]

Wilders played baseball as a pitcher for Blauw-Wit Amsterdam and for the Netherlands national baseball team, becoming one of only three known athletes to represent the country in both baseball and football (the other two being Joop Odenthal and Henk Schijvenaar).[4][5][6] He played second base for the Netherlands at the 1937 World Exhibition Games in Paris, where they took the championship.[7]

After his playing career, he became the baseball manager of VVGA in Amsterdam in 1959.[8]

Wilders was inducted into the Netherlands Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983.[9][10]

References

  1. ^ "Cor Wilders". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Cor Wilders". National Football Teams. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  3. ^ Regeer, Rob. "België - Nederland | VRND - 17-03-1940". Voetbalstats.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 5 March 2026.
  4. ^ Chetwynd, Josh (2008). Baseball in Europe: A Country by Country History. pp. 16–17. ISBN 9780786437245.
  5. ^ "Total Honkbal: The Baseball Team of Ajax Amsterdam". Ryan Ferguson. 8 April 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  6. ^ Hoogenbos, Gé. "Historie van het honkbal". Honkbalsite Archief (in Dutch). Retrieved 5 March 2026.
  7. ^ "Honkbalweekhistorie". Leesvoer (in Dutch) (2). Haarlem Baseball Week: 9–10. 14 July 2018.
  8. ^ "Cor Wilders coach VVGA". De Telegraaf (in Dutch). 10 December 1959. p. 13. Retrieved 5 March 2026.
  9. ^ "Cor Wilders - Eregalerij" (in Dutch). Nederlands Honkbal en Softbal Museum. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  10. ^ Stoovelaar, Marco (8 December 2018). "Fred van Groningen Schinkel and Robert Eenhoorn inducted into Dutch Hall of Fame". Grand Slam Stats & News. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
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