Baseball World Cup

Not to be confused with World Baseball Classic. For the most recent tournament, see 2009 Baseball World Cup. Baseball World Cup Most recent season or competition: 2009 Baseball World Cup Sport Baseball Founded 1938 No. of teams 22 (in 2009) Continent International Most recent champion(s)  United States Most titles  Cuba (25 times) The Baseball World Cup is an international tournament in which national baseball teams from around the world compete. It is sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF). Along with the World Baseball Classic, it is 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, but baseball is no longer an Olympic sport.)2 Contents 1 History 2 Tournament Results 3 Awards 4 Medal table 5 See also 6 References 7 External links History There have been 38 Baseball World Cups to date and the most recent World Cup was held in 2009 in eight countries across Europe. The first tournament, held in 1938, featured only two teams but the last tournament included 22 participants, and the previous two have featured 16 and 18 teams in 2007 and 2005 respectively. The World Cup was called the Amateur World Series until the tournament in 1988. The tournament generally receives relatively little publicity and does not begin to approach the popularity of the football (soccer) World Cup, cricket World Cup, or rugby World Cup. Until 1998 the competition was limited to amateur players. Since 1998, professional minor league players have competed, but Major League Baseball has not allowed 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 exists and has 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 other world cups, which include players from the most prestigious professional leagues, than the Baseball World Cup. Tournament Results Year Final Host Final four Number of teams Champions Runners-up 3rd place 4th place 1938 Details England 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 Caracas Venezuela Colombia Panama Nicaragua 6 1947 Cartagena de Indias 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 de Indias 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 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 New York United States Nicaragua Colombia Dominican Republic 9 1976 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 Rome 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 Awards See the "Awards" section on each tournament's individual page. Medal table Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total 1  Cuba 25 3 2 30 2  United States 4 7 4 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 9  Nicaragua 0 5 5 10 10  Mexico 0 4 1 5 11  Japan 0 1 5 6 12  Chinese Taipei 0 1 3 4 13  Panama 0 1 2 3 14  Canada 0 0 1 1 See also Women's Baseball World Cup World Baseball Classic Intercontinental Cup (International Baseball Federation (IBAF)) Baseball at the Summer Olympics Baseball awards World Cup (all sports) References ^ "IBAF World Ranking Notes" (PDF). International Baseball Federation. 13 January 2009. Archived from the original on 3 June 2009. http://www.webcitation.org/5hG7G6kr0. Retrieved 23 June 2009.  ^ "Singapore 2005: 2012 Olympic Sport Vote". International Olympic Committee. 11 July 2005. http://www.olympic.org/uk/organisation/commissions/programme/full_story_uk.asp?id=1437. 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