Baseball

NEW YORK/PULLY, Switzerland — The fifth edition of the World Baseball Classic, which serves as WBSC’s Official National Team World Championship, will take place from 9 to 21 March 2023 and be expanded to 20 teams from the previous 16-team format of 2017. All 16 participants from the 2017 World Baseball Classic have been invited to play in 2023 tournament. They will ...

The WBSC Congress, which was held in Taipei City (TPE) from 4-5 July, welcomed Babe Ruth League as the newest WBSC Associate to join the baseball-softball global family. The youth league currently has over one million registered baseball and softball players and has operations across 24 countries and territories, including American Samoa, Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Bermuda, Bonaire, Canada, China, Chinese ...

The Pakistan Federation Baseball is hosting a three-match series between the national women’s baseball teams of Pakistan and Malaysia. In this regard, on Saturday 26-03-2022 at one o’clock at Sajjal Office National Hockey Stadium, Malaysia Women’s Baseball Team Captain Noor Ayesha Bint Samin and Pakistan Women’s Baseball Team Captain Zainab Riaz hold an important Press Conference regarding the Women’s Baseball Series.   Syed ...

PULLY, Switzerland — The World Baseball Softball Confederation (“WBSC”) announced today a multi-year Baseball World Cup® media rights partnership with Tokyo-based Hakuhodo DY media partners, Inc. (“Hakuhodo”) for the territory of Japan. The seven-year agreement, which runs through 2028, exclusively awards Hakuhodo the media rights in Japan for all WBSC’s Baseball World Cups, including the U-23 Baseball World Cup, the U-18 Baseball ...

PULLY, Switzerland — The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) is pleased to announce that Hermosillo, Mexico, has been awarded the hosting rights of the V WBSC U-15 Baseball World Cup, which is scheduled to take place from 26 August to 4 September later this year. One of the two Hermosillo stadiums for the event is Estadio Sonora, the same venue which saw the ...

World No. 4 USA awarded wild card into WBSC U-12 Baseball World Cup PULLY, Switzerland — The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Executive Board has awarded world No. 4 United States a wild card into the next WBSC U-12 Baseball World Cup. The VI WBSC U-12 Baseball World Cup, originally part of the 2021 calendar, was postponed to 2022 due to the ...

The magnificent competitions of the 16th National Women’s Baseball Championship organized by Pakistan Baseball Federation are underway at Jinnah Stadium Gujranwala. According to Syed Fakhar Ali Shah, President Pakistan Federation Baseball, the 16th National Women’s Baseball Championship at Jinnah Stadium in Gujranwala has entered its final stages. On the third day of the tournament, two matches were played in which ...

PULLY, Switzerland — The 2021 end-of-the-year World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Baseball World Rankings were published today. The WBSC Baseball World Rankings measure National Team performance — from U-12 to top level — in WBSC-sanctioned international competitions over a four-year period. The end-of-the-year rankings reflect the expiration of all points given in 2017. The latest WBSC Men’s Baseball World Ranking includes a total of ...

PULLY, Switzerland — The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) and Seoul, Korea-based Newdin Contents today announced a partnership to launch the first-ever international virtual Baseball World Cup.As part of the agreement, the WBSC will use Newdin’s ‘Strikezon’ state-of-the art technology installed at venues around the world as the virtual field-of-play.  “The WBSC is proud to partner with Newdin and their leading ‘Strikezon’ ...

Syed Fakhar Ali Shah Member at Large Baseball Federation of Asia/President Pakistan Federation Baseball visited Iran in the last week of January 2021. The purpose of his visit was to inspect the development of baseball in Iran and the ground being prepared for the 15th West Asia Baseball Cup. He was accompanied by Amaid Kazmi, Director Youth Development Pakistan Baseball ...