Oliver Heidecker

Oliver Heidecker

• Born July 27, 1968 in Köln Germany

Biographical Information

Oliver Heidecker played in Germany and England.

Heidecker played high school baseball in the US as an exchange student from Germany. He hit .333/.333/.611 with 6 runs in 4 games for Germany in the 1986 European Junior Championship but fielded .704 with 8 errors. He somehow avoided leading the team in errors while trailing only Stephan Jäger in slugging.

In the 1989 European Championship, he did very well, producing at a .435/.481/.478 clip with 4 runs and 4 RBI in 8 games, fielding .920 in his lone major event for the German national team. Among the team's regulars, only Jäger (.486) had a better OBP and only Jäger and Matthias Winterrath had a better slugging percentage.

He was MVP in Germany's Bundesliga-1 in 1989 and 1990. He was playing for his hometown Cologne Dodgers when they toured the US in 1991. He then spent most of 1992-1994 playing in Great Britain. He hit .491 to lead the 1993 London Warriors; the team won the British title. In 1994, he stole home one game.

Heidecker also spent part of '94 with the Cologne Cardinals, hitting .269/.296/.692. It was his last performance in the Bundesliga-1.