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The first official WBSC Coed Slow Pitch World Cup was greenlit on 9 June 2022, during a meeting by the WBSC Executive Board in Pully, Switzerland. [22] [23] It was to be held in Guadalajara, Mexico in December 2023, [24] but it was cancelled in October 2023 due to logistical challenges. [25]
It was later decided that the WC would be played every two years, starting in 2022. [3] The 14-team 2020 European Baseball5 Championship held in February and March saw France and Lithuania take the two available Europe berths to qualify for the inaugural B5WC. [7] [8] The Oceania qualifier was scheduled to be played in Australia in 2021. [9]
Because it is a world championship, the results of the U-18 Baseball World Cup affect the WBSC World Rankings. [ 1 ] Several players who have participated in the U-18 Baseball World Cup have gone on to stardom at the professional level, including Japan's Yu Darvish , USA's Clayton Kershaw , Francisco Lindor and Buster Posey , and Cuba's Yasiel ...
The fifth and most recent Classic was scheduled for 2021, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After the pandemic-induced delay, the 2023 World Baseball Classic was held between March 8–21, with Japan defeating the United States 3–2 in the championship game.
The IBAF merged with the International Softball Federation in 2013 to form the World Baseball Softball Confederation. That same year, the WBSC discontinued the Baseball World Cup, last held in 2011, making the World Baseball Classic one of the two main senior baseball tournaments sanctioned by the WBSC, alongside the Premier 12 ; however, the ...
[1] [2] [3] Prior to the 2021 edition, the tournament was an under-19 tournament. The latest edition of the WBSC U-18 Women's Softball World Cup was played in Lima , Peru in December 2021, with the United States claiming their fourth consecutive women's youth softball world title, and eighth overall, following a dramatic 1–0 win against ...
The 2021 U-18 Baseball World Cup or the XXIX U-18 Baseball World Cup is an international baseball tournament held by the World Baseball Softball Confederation for players 18-year-old and younger held in Bradenton and Sarasota, Florida, USA.
WBSC.org The U-12 Baseball World Cup is the under-12 baseball world championship sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) and its predecessor the International Baseball Federation (IBAF), and is the most elite and highest level of competition in its age category.