Henk Keulemans

Henk Keulemans (June 7, 1924 – November 7, 2012) was a Dutch baseball player and manager. He was the first manager of the Netherlands national baseball team, leading the team to three European Baseball Championships in the 1950s.

Keulemans began his playing career with ; in 1943, Keulemans and fellow Haarlem pitcher Roel de Mon joined SC Schoten. He would play with Schoten until 1965, winning the Honkbal Hoofdklasse championship on five occasions (1947, 1956, 1957, 1960, and 1961), the last two as the club's player–manager. He also led the Netherlands at the 1956 Global World Series, held in Milwaukee. Keulemans stepped down as manager of the national team after 1958, though he continued to play on the squad at Haarlem Baseball Week and in an exhibition trip against a semipro team in Michigan in 1961 (under manager Ron Fraser). He also led the Dutch team in batting average at the 1960 European championship.

Keulemans was the first player to be honored with the award for Most Valuable Player in the Dutch league in 1953 (an honor he earned again in 1960), and led the Honkbal Hoofdklasse in runs scored in 1960 (15), 1961 (16) and 1962 (30).

Keulemans also played with , the club's association football division. He died in 2012 at age 88.