Editing AFC Ajax (section)

==Other sports==

===Baseball===
{{Main|Ajax HVA}}
[[Ajax HVA]] (1922–1972) was the [[baseball]] team of AFC Ajax founded in 1922, and competed as founding members of the [[Honkbal Hoofdklasse]], the top flight of professional baseball in the Netherlands.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}} Ajax won the national baseball title a total of four times (1924, 1928, 1942, 1948) before the club opted to no longer field a baseball team, and to focus solely on football in 1972.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?%2Fnl%2Fitems%2FANP01%3A12987290 |title=Amsterdam Honkbal: Ajax-HVA |publisher=ANP Historisch Archief |access-date=1 September 2013 |archive-date=13 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713202405/http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?%2Fnl%2Fitems%2FANP01%3A12987290 |url-status=live }}</ref> Ajax spent a total of 50 years at the top flight of Baseball in the Netherlands from 1922 to 1972. The dissolution of Ajax baseball club resulted in the players finding a new sponsor in a [[Mustard (condiment)|mustard]] manufacturing company called Luycks, while merging with the Diemen Giants to become the Luycks Giants, thus replacing both former clubs.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/world/europe/20iht-journal.4.13062575.html?_r=0 |title=Dutch get a kick out of baseball, too |newspaper=NY Times |date=20 May 2008 |access-date=1 September 2013 |archive-date=13 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113094106/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/world/europe/20iht-journal.4.13062575.html?_r=0 |url-status=live |last1=Tagliabue |first1=John }}</ref>

===Esports===
{{Main|AFC Ajax eSports}}
In 2016, Ajax launched an esports team, with Koen Weijland as the club's first signing, making its debut on the Global stage of [[Video game|professional gaming]]. They have since signed the likes of Dani Hagebeuk, Lev Vinken, Joey Calabro and Bob van Uden, the latter spent his first season on loan to the esports team of Japanese club [[Sagan Tosu]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ajax.nl/streams/actueel/ajax-versterkt-esports-team-met-amerikaanse-wereldtopper.htm |title=Ajax versterkt eSports team met Amerikaanse wereldtopper |publisher=Ajax.nl |access-date=3 May 2018 |archive-date=4 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180504011400/https://www.ajax.nl/streams/actueel/ajax-versterkt-esports-team-met-amerikaanse-wereldtopper.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.1337.games/2017/09/wederom-nieuwe-partner-voor-ajax-esports/ |title=Wederom nieuwe partner voor Ajax eSports |date=28 September 2017 |publisher=1337.games |access-date=3 May 2018 |archive-date=4 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180504012408/http://www.1337.games/2017/09/wederom-nieuwe-partner-voor-ajax-esports/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.gosugamers.net/hearthstone/news/41430-afc-ajax-sign-dutch-fifa-pro-enter-esports |title=AFC Ajax sign Dutch FIFA pro, enter eSports |date=23 September 2016 |publisher=GOSU Hearthstone |access-date=3 May 2018 |archive-date=4 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180504090330/https://www.gosugamers.net/hearthstone/news/41430-afc-ajax-sign-dutch-fifa-pro-enter-esports |url-status=live }}</ref>