The 1969 European Baseball Championship was held in Wiesbaden, Germany and was won by the Netherlands. Italy finished as runner-up. The tournament, held at Lindsey Air Station, had two groups, with defending champion Belgium and Italy and the Netherlands, who both skipped the 1967 championship, in the top group and four teams in the bottom group. West Germany defeated Belgium in the only cross-group game in the tournament. After the tournament, Spain, which went undefeated in the lower group, requested that the two-tiered format be abolished.
An American military team, the Wiesbaden Flyers, and a team from South Africa also attended the tournament.
Italian players reportedly chanted "Antilles, Antilles," objecting to the Dutch team's use of ballplayers from the Netherlands Antilles, which included most valuable player .
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