The 2023 World Baseball Classic (WBC) was an international professionalbaseball tournament and the fifth iteration of the World Baseball Classic. It began...
homes. As with Nippon ProfessionalBaseball (NPB), the KBO league places a cap on the number of foreign players allowed on club rosters. The foreign player...
Nippon ProfessionalBaseball (NPB, 日本野球機構, Nippon Yakyū Kikō) is a professionalbaseball league and the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it...
American Association of ProfessionalBaseball, commonly known as the Can-Am League, was a professional, independent baseball league with teams in the...
The Asia Winter Baseball League is a professionalbaseball league hosted in Taiwan with 2012 as its inaugural season. Making use of the warm and dry winter...
team is awarded the World Baseball Classic Championship Trophy. It is one of the two main senior baseball tournaments sanctioned by the WBSC, alongside...
Baseball was introduced to Japan in 1872 and is Japan's most popular participatory and spectator sport. The first professional competitions emerged in...
Major League Baseball (MLB) and Nippon ProfessionalBaseball (NPB) are the highest levels of baseball in the United States and Japan, respectively. MLB...
Olympics in 2008, as it had qualified through the AsianBaseballChampionship in 2007. Unlike the WBC roster, the Olympic team was composed exclusively of...
Asia. Cricket is the second most popular sport in Asia, and is most popular in South Asia. Other popular sports in Asia include basketball, baseball,...
The American Association of ProfessionalBaseball is an independent professionalbaseball league founded in 2005. It operates in the central United States...
baseball is a popular sport around the world with numerous countries practicing it at amateur and professional levels. The International Baseball Federation...
(professional teams) Asian Junior BaseballChampionship (national teams; under 18) Asian 15U Baseballchampionship (national teams; under 15) Asian 12U...
The Frontier League (French: Ligue Frontière) is a professionalbaseball league based in the East North Central and Mid-Atlantic United States, and Central...
South America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, particularly in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. References to baseball date back to the 1700s when in England...
Professionalbaseball in Japan first started in the 1920s, but it was not until the Greater Japan Tokyo Baseball Club (大日本東京野球倶楽部, Dai-nippon Tōkyō Yakyū...
Mexican Pacific League, Puerto Rican ProfessionalBaseball League, and Venezuelan ProfessionalBaseball League. In Asia, South Korea (1982), Taiwan (1990)...
have played in at least one Major League Baseball (MLB) game. Of these players, twelve are on existing MLB rosters. The first instance of a Japanese player...
The Asia Series was an international club baseball competition, contested by the champions of all four professional leagues associated with the World...
in the 1980s as the Chinese Taipei Baseball Team. The team has won five titles in the AsianBaseballChampionship (most recently in 2019), a bronze medal...
Baseball World Cup, and were runners-up in the 1967 and 2007 European BaseballChampionship. As of 2020 Great Britain competed internationally at under 12,...
Baseball and Softball Federation, which is a member of the Baseball Federation of Asia since 2017. The following is a list of professionalbaseball match...
expatriate players began to steadily find spots on Nippon ProfessionalBaseball (NPB) rosters in the 1960s. More than 600 Americans have played NPB, although...
The Australian Baseball League (ABL) is a professionalbaseball league in Australia. The league is governed by the Australian Baseball Federation (ABF)...
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professionalbaseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada. One of the big...
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