2017 World Baseball Classic
The 2017 World Baseball Classic (WBC) was an international professional baseball competition, composed of 16 competing nations, held from March 6 to 22, 2017. It was the fourth iteration of the World Baseball Classic. The first-round hosts were Seoul, Tokyo, Miami, and Zapopan. The second-round hosts were Tokyo and San Diego, and the championship round was played in Los Angeles.
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Image: Marlins First Pitch at Marlins Park, April 4, 2012 (cropped)
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The World Baseball Classic (WBC), also referred to as the Classic, is an international baseball tournament sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), the sport's global governing body, and organized in partnership with Major League Baseball (MLB). The winning team is awarded the World Baseball Classic Championship Trophy. It is one of the two main senior baseball tournaments sanctioned by the WBSC, alongside the WBSC Premier12, but is the only one to grant the winner the title of "world champion".
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The Cuban national team at the 1951 Amateur World Series. Cuba won the most international titles in the 20th century.
MLB Commissioner Bud Selig was a driving force in establishing the WBC
2006 World Baseball Classic Trophy; the trophy is in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
