Baseball World Cup
Baseball World Cup
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Most recent season or competition: 2011 Baseball World Cup | |
| Sport | Baseball |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1938 |
| Ceased | 2011 |
| No. of teams | 16 (in 2011) |
| Continent | International |
| Last champion(s) |  Netherlands |
| Most titles |  Cuba (25 times) |
The Baseball World Cup was an international tournament in which national baseball teams from around the world competed. It was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF). Along with the World Baseball Classic, it was one of two active tournaments considered by the IBAF to be a major world championship.[1] The baseball tournament at the Summer Olympic Games was also considered a major world championship while baseball was an Olympic sport.[2]
After the 2011 tournament, the Baseball World Cup was discontinued in favor of an expanded World Baseball Classic tournament. The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) – successor to the IBAF – now sanctions two new tournaments: the biennial 23U Baseball World Cup (begun as the 21U Baseball World Cup in 2014) and WBSC's quadrennial, flagship tournament – involving the twelve best-ranked national teams in the world – called the WBSC Premier12 (starting in 2015).[3]
Contents
1 History
2 Tournament results
3 Medal table
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
History[edit]
The Baseball World Cup was held 38 times; the final one was in 2011 in Panama. The first tournament, held in 1938, featured only two teams, but the last tournament included 22 participants; the previous two featured 16 and 18 teams (in 2007 and 2005, respectively). The World Cup was originally called the Amateur World Series, until the tournament in 1988. Until 1988, the Amateur World Series was held in intervals of one to four years, except for the eight-year period from 1953–61. From 1988 to 2001, the Baseball World Cup was held in intervals of two to four years. After 2001, the tournament was held every two years.
Until 1998 the competition was limited to amateur players. After 1998, professional minor league players competed, but Major League Baseball did not allow 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 existed and had 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 world cups of other sports—which include players from the most prestigious professional leagues—than to the Baseball World Cup.
Tournament results[edit]
| Year | Final Host | Final four | Number of teams | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champions | Runners-up | 3rd place | 4th place | |||||
| 1938 Details |  Great Britain |  Great Britain |  United States | – | – | 2 | ||
| 1939 Details | Havana |  Cuba |  Nicaragua | United States | – | 3 | ||
| 1940 Details | Havana | Cuba | Nicaragua/ United States | – |  Venezuela | 7 | ||
| 1941 Details | Havana | Venezuela | Cuba |  Mexico |  Panama | 9 | ||
| 1942 Details | Havana | Cuba |  Dominican Republic | Venezuela | Mexico | 5 | ||
| 1943 Details | Havana | Cuba | Mexico | Dominican Republic | Panama | 4 | ||
| 1944 Details |  Caracas | Venezuela | Mexico | Cuba | Panama | 8 | ||
| 1945 Details |  Caracas | Venezuela |  Colombia | Panama | Nicaragua | 6 | ||
| 1947 |  Cartagena, Colombia | Colombia |  Puerto Rico | Nicaragua | Mexico | 9 | ||
| 1948 |  Managua | Dominican Republic | Puerto Rico | Colombia | Mexico | 8 | ||
| 1950 Details | Managua | Cuba | Dominican Republic | Venezuela | Panama | 12 | ||
| 1951 Details |  Mexico City | Puerto Rico | Venezuela | Cuba | Dominican Republic | 11 | ||
| 1952 | Havana | Cuba | Dominican Republic | Puerto Rico | Panama | 13 | ||
| 1953 | Caracas | Cuba | Venezuela | Nicaragua | Dominican Republic | 11 | ||
| 1961 |  San José | Cuba | Mexico | Venezuela | Panama | 10 | ||
| 1965 | Cartagena, Colombia | Colombia | Mexico | Puerto Rico | Panama | 9 | ||
| 1969 |  Santo Domingo | Cuba |  United States | Dominican Republic | Venezuela | 11 | ||
| 1970 | Bogotá | Cuba | United States | Puerto Rico | Colombia | 12 | ||
| 1971 | Havana | Cuba | Colombia |  Nicaragua | Puerto Rico | 10 | ||
| 1972 Details |  Managua | Cuba | United States | Nicaragua |  Japan | 16 | ||
| 1973 | Havana | Cuba | Puerto Rico | Venezuela | Dominican Republic | 8 | ||
| 1973 | Managua | United States | Nicaragua | Puerto Rico | Colombia | 11 | ||
| 1974 |  St. Petersburg | United States | Nicaragua | Colombia | Dominican Republic | 9 | ||
| 1976 Details | Bogotá | Cuba | Puerto Rico | Japan | Nicaragua | 11 | ||
| 1978 Details |  Rome | Cuba | United States |  South Korea | Japan | 11 | ||
| 1980 Details |  Tokyo | Cuba | South Korea | Japan | United States | 12 | ||
| 1982 Details |  Seoul | South Korea | Japan | United States |  Chinese Taipei | 10 | ||
| 1984 Details | Havana | Cuba | Chinese Taipei | United States | Japan | 13 | ||
| 1986 Details | Amsterdam | Cuba |  South Korea | Chinese Taipei | United States | 12 | ||
| 1988 Details | Parma | Cuba | United States | Chinese Taipei | Japan | 12 | ||
| 1990 Details |  Edmonton | Cuba | Nicaragua | South Korea | Puerto Rico | 12 | ||
| 1994 Details | Managua | Cuba | South Korea | Japan | Nicaragua | 16 | ||
| 1998 Details | Rome | Cuba |  South Korea | Nicaragua |  Italy | 16 | ||
| 2001 Details |  Taipei | Cuba | United States | Chinese Taipei |  Japan | 16 | ||
| 2003 Details | Havana | Cuba | Panama | Japan | Chinese Taipei | 16 | ||
| 2005 Details | Rotterdam | Cuba | South Korea | Panama |  Netherlands | 18 | ||
| 2007 Details | Taipei | United States | Cuba | Japan | Netherlands | 16 | ||
| 2009 Details | Nettuno | United States | Cuba |  Canada | Puerto Rico | 22 | ||
| 2011 Details |  Panama City | Netherlands | Cuba | Canada | United States | 16 | ||
Medal table[edit]
| Rank | Country | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze  | Total  |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cuba | 25 | 4 | 2 | 31 |
| 2 | United States | 4 | 8 | 3 | 15 |
| 3 | Venezuela | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 4 | Colombia | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 |  South Korea | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 |
| 6 |  Puerto Rico | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
| 7 | Dominican Republic | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 8 | Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Nicaragua | 0 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 11 |  Mexico | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 12 |  Japan | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 13 |  Chinese Taipei | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 14 | Panama | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 15 | Canada | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Total | 39 | 39 | 39 | 117 | |
See also[edit]
- Women's Baseball World Cup
- Baseball awards#World
- Baseball at the Summer Olympics
Intercontinental Cup (International Baseball Federation (IBAF))- WBSC Premier12
- World Baseball Classic
References[edit]
^ "IBAF World Ranking Notes" (PDF). International Baseball Federation. 13 January 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 June 2009. Retrieved 23 June 2009..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ "Singapore 2005: 2012 Olympic Sport Vote". International Olympic Committee. 11 July 2005. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
^ The Congress approved a new format of International tournaments
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