About us

Our goals

Our primary goal is to create an easygoing environment for playing baseball in Helsinki area. We want to give both new and more experienced players an environment to enjoy the sport. On a more competitive level, we try to go for the Finnish league championship each year.

The club is run by volunteer work. We try to play baseball with positive feelings and to give a possibility for coexistance of different baseball cultures from around the world. We develop players towards fair play while not forgetting personal competitiveness and ambition.

Club history

In the late 1970s, interest in international play began to stir among pesäpallo players, and Puumat was born out of baseball experiences acquired from Sweden. The Baseball-Puumat association was founded in 1981 to continue the activities of Wranglers BC. Baseball's national federation had been established in Finland only a year earlier. At that time, many of Puumat's players came from the baseball teams of the Puna-Mustat and also from the handball team of Katajanokan Haukat. The sport was built up from scratch, but even then international competition caught the players' eyes. Back then, many of the national team's core players indeed came from Puumat, who were training three times a week at the time.

Devils, the second team of the Baseball-Puumat association, was originally founded — also in the 1980s — as its own club when some of the Puumat players came up with the idea of establishing a new club. Devils acquired a batting cage and a pitching machine required for higher-quality training in the sport, thereby further advancing the development of baseball. Devils suspended its activities in the 1990s, but returned to the field at a level below the league division in 2024. Its sister team Hawks also began its activities at the same division level in 2026.

Since then, many of the club's players, such as Harri Malmsten, Antero Salo, Veli-Pekka Häkkinen, Timo Tiihonen and Jukka Ropponen, have been inducted into the sport's Finnish Hall of Fame.

Baseball was for a long time played on sand fields, and the pitcher's raised mound characteristic of the sport was not yet used in games. The Meilahti and Ruskeasuo fields were in heavy use from the 1980s all the way to the 2010s. The first baseball field in Finland was built in Lahti through volunteer work in 2016, and the first field meeting international standards, in Helsinki's Myllypuro, was completed in 2019. A baseball field was built at the Seinäjoki racetrack in 2025. Tampere commissioned a new artificial turf field in Mustavuori in 2026. Opportunities to take up the sport have improved in recent years and create a good foundation for the growth of the sport in Finland!