yet so we will but there's no denying this relationship has had its ups and downs over the past century ok here comes the history part but let's keep thinking a little more exciting here's a brief history of us german relations told through the medium of. baseball the 1st official baseball game on german ground was played at the benefit of $936.00 no other countries ended up sending a team so the u.s. the u.s. and the u.s. would be. the 2nd world war and surprisingly so u.s. german relations hit rock bottom major league baseball players were drafted into the u.s. military and the sport all but disappeared in nazi germany after world war 2 things got a lot better as the u.s. helped to rebuild a modern democratic germany still keeping americans want to see the germans the american way of life and want to do this was to support. the cold war period so the us and west germany unite against the common enemy of communism and the soviet union and in the run up to $989.00 the us encouraged the reunification of east and west germany the 80s also saw the establishment of the current form of the baseball