07/07/2023 1 Minute Read

MLB Cup, First Pitch reach hundreds of teams, thousands of kids in China

The development initiatives thrive. The Spring edition of the MLB Cup involved 536 teams. The First Pitch programme took baseball to over 100,000 students in 84 schools.

06/07/2023 1 Minute Read

World No. 1 Japan reveal roster for VII WBSC U-12 Baseball World Cup

The U-12 Samurai Japan will gather on 23 July and travel to Tainan on 26 July. They will compete in Group A and face No. 3 Mexico, No. 4 Chinese Taipei, No. 6 Venezuela, No. 9 Australia and No. 19 Germany.

05/07/2023 1 Minute Read

USA sweep Chinese Taipei in Collegiate Baseball Series

The 20th edition of the WBSC-sanctioned event took place in Cary, Durham, Kannapolis and Fayetteville, North Carolina. The US Collegiate National Team will now face Japan.

20/06/2023 2 Minute Read

World Refugee Day: WBSC hosts Baseball5 Open Day at Azraq Refugee Camp to drive home message of integration

The WBSC Baseball5 Refugee Team welcomed a team from a local village to train and play at the Azraq Refugee Camp’s facility in a game that drove home the power of sport to unite people.

19/06/2023 1 Minute Read

Olympic bronze medal manager Masatake Yamanaka re-elected as Baseball Federation of Japan President

The 76-year-old former collegiate star pitcher was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2016 and has served as president since 2018, taking both men's and women's baseball programmes to the top of the WBSC World Rankings.

16/06/2023 1 Minute Read

Women’s Baseball World Cup: Group B hosts Japan celebrate three-months-to-go mark with press conference in Hiroshima

Tokyo 2020 Gold Medallist and Premier12 2019 champion Ryosuke Kikuchi joined the event.

12/06/2023 1 Minute Read

Virtual Baseball: China’s Women’s National Softball Team hosts home run challenge at first-ever Softball Experience Centre

The event used the WBSC approved virtual baseball simulator STRIKEZON, in the Homerun Derby mode for competition. Each team was formed by two players from any school, teamed with a Women’s National Softball Team athlete, selected randomly.

08/06/2023 1 Minute Read

The winding road from rural India to the Women's Baseball Asia Cup

Anjali Khalkho lives in one of 105 villages under the Kusmi block of Balrampur municipal district, northeast of the subcontinent. She played catcher in two games for seventh-place India.