The Pan American Baseball Confederation (COPABE, Spanish: Confederación Panamericana de Béisbol, Portuguese: Confederação Pan-Americana de Beisebol) is the governing body of baseball within the Americas.

History[edit]

Talks of the need of a baseball confederation in the Americas sparked with the founding of the Confederation of European Baseball back in the 1950s, although it was not until 1984, during the World Cup played in Cuba, that 12 countries of the Americas finally voted in favor of a formation of a confederation.

The first ever Confederación Panamericana de Béisbol (COPABE) executive meeting was held on March 1985, and 11 countries participated in its first ever Congress on March 15. The Congress saw the election of Oswaldo Matias Flores (Cuba) as the first president of the organization.

On October 5, 1987, the first Pan American Championship was played (Cuba won the tournament). The day after the final game of the tournament was held, the Congress elected Edwin Zerpa Pizzorno (Venezuela) as the next president of the organization.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s COPABE concentrated on developing tournaments at the youth level all over the Americas.

Members[edit]

Rankings[edit]

Since the rankings were first released by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF) until 2014, Cuba had maintained its position as the top national baseball team in the world, and by extension the top-ranked team in the Pan American Baseball Confederation. With the teams of United States, Cuba, Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela, COPABE is the most represented confederation in the world top ten.

Men's Rankings as of 19 September 2017[1]
COPABE Rank	WBSC Rank	Team	Points
1	1	United States	5025
2	4	Cuba	3152
3	5	Mexico	2613
4	7	Canada	2142
5	10	Puerto Rico	1796
6	11	Venezuela	1765
7	12	Dominican Republic	1227
8	13	Nicaragua	1155
9	14	Panama	1077
10	16	Colombia	949
11	19	Brazil	654
12	20	Argentina	357
13	37	Peru	115
14	50	El Salvador	42
14	50	Honduras	42
15	54	Chile	28
16	57	Guatemala	23
17	59	Bolivia	20
18	64	Curaçao	13
19	64	Ecuador	13
20	66	Costa Rica	11
21	70	Aruba	4
22	72	U.S. Virgin Islands	1
23	75	Bahamas	NR
23	75	Guyana	NR
23	75	Haiti	NR
23	75	British Virgin Islands	NR
23	75	Jamaica	NR
23	75	Trinidad and Tobago	NR

References[edit]

See also[edit]

• World Baseball Softball Confederation


• Baseball at the Central American and Caribbean Games


• Baseball at the Pan American Games


• Baseball at the 2010 South American Games


• 2008 Copa América (baseball)


• Baseball awards #Americas


• Latin American Series


• Caribbean Series


• South American Baseball Championship

External links[edit]

• Official website


• 
  Pan American Baseball Confederation website (on WorldNews (WN) Network domain)

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