Baseball Cup

The Baseball World Cup is an international tournament in which national baseball teams from around the world compete. It is sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF). Along with the World Baseball Classic, it is one of two active tournaments considered by the IBAF to be a major world championship. (The baseball tournament at the Summer Olympic Games was also considered a major world championship, but baseball is no longer an Olympic sport.)

History

There have been 37 Baseball World Cups to date; the first tournament, held in 1938, featured only two teams but the last five have all featured 16 teams. The World Cup was called the Amateur World Series until the tournament in 1988. The most recent World Cup was held in 2007 in the Chinese Taipei. The tournament generally receives relatively little publicity and does not begin to approach the popularity of the football (soccer) World Cup, cricket World Cup, or rugby World Cup.

Until 1996 the competition was limited to amateur players. Since 1996, professional minor league players have competed, but Major League Baseball has not allowed its players to participate. In the months leading up to the high-profile first World Baseball Classic in 2006, many commentators heralded it as a "Baseball World Cup", perhaps not realizing that a tournament of that description already exists and has for almost seventy years. However, the 2006 World Baseball Classic was the first international baseball tournament to include players from the major leagues, making it a closer equivalent to the other world cups, which include players from the most prestigious professional leagues, than the Baseball World Cup.

Tournament Results

Awards

Medal table

See also

• Women's Baseball World Cup
• World Baseball Classic
• Intercontinental Cup (International Baseball Federation (IBAF))
• World Port Tournament
• Baseball at the Summer Olympics
• World University Baseball Championship
• World Junior Baseball Championship (IBAF) (national teams; under 18)
• World Youth Baseball Championship (IBAF) (national teams; under 16)
• Junior League World Series champions (community teams; ages 13-15)
• Little League World Series champions (community teams; ages 11-13)
• World Series
• Baseball awards
• World Cup (all sports)

References

1. ^ "IBAF World Ranking Notes". IBAF. 13 January 2009 . http://ibaf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Files_-_world_rankings/4221-IBAF_World_Rankings_Notes.pdf . Retrieved 23 July 2009 .  
2. ^ "Singapore 2005: 2012 Olympic Sport Vote". International Olympic Committee. 11 July 2005 . http://www.olympic.org/uk/organisation/commissions/programme/full_story_uk.asp?id=1437 . Retrieved 23 July 2009 .  

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