Baseball World Cup
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The Baseball World Cup was an international baseball tournament for national teams around the world, sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation. First held in 1938 as the Amateur World Series
The John Moores Trophy awarded in 1938
Lourdes Gurriel at the 1986 AWS
Cuba won its first world championship in 1939
Antonio Muñoz won MVP in 1978 and 1980
World Baseball Classic
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The World Baseball Classic, also referred to as the Classic, is a quadrennial international baseball tournament sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation, the sport's global governing bo
Baseball World Cup
…its history, the highest level of international baseball competition in the world. Even after it was supplanted in this regard in 2006 by the modern World Baseball Classic (WBC), the Baseball World Cup was still considered by the IBAF to be a major world championship, along with the WBC and the Summer Olympic Games. Early…
Dodger Stadium hosting the 2009 World Baseball Classic. The top of a ten-story elevator shaft bears the World Baseball Classic logo.
Flags from countries participating in the 2013 World Baseball Classic are shown in a pre-game ceremony on the Championship Game at AT&T Park in San Francisco, CA, USA, on March 19, 2013.
2013 World Baseball Classic championship match between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, March 20, 2013
Italy vs Japan with over 40,000 spectators at Tokyo Dome on March 16, 2023