Japan, Chinese Taipei, India, Korea, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Thailand will play at the 7th BFA 15U Championship at Barabati Stadium Cuttack, from November 5 to 11, 2012 by invitation of Amateur Baseball Federation of India.

Kyoto; An all-star team of the Japanese women’s professional league, by breaking off their season, took on the amateur National Team for two exhibition games in Kyoto on April 21 and won both matches 6-1 and 9-0.

Japanese High School Baseball Federation announced that the 94th National Championship will be held at Koshien Stadium for 15 days from August 8, 2012. The final game on August 22, weather permitting, will start from 10:30 am instead in the afternoon until 2 years ago, not to affect already tight electric power supply in summer by additional huge power consumption of TV viewers throughout Japan.

Korean Professional Baseball Players Association(KPBPA) and Retired Korean Professional Players Union named “Ilgoo-Hoe” start a business for development of baseball together. The two groups set the dissemination of baseball in Asia as the top priority for the international exchange plan.

Today (April 4, 2012), Hana Bank has made an agreement with the Baseball Federation of Asia(BFA) and Vietnam to provide a sum of about US$ 180,000 in order to construct a baseball stadium in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam.

Down by 7-1 in the 3rd inning, the Sinon Bulls players gave a gutsy performance in storming back to defeat the Brother Elephants 11-8 in a key CPBL (Chinese Professional Baseball League) contest in the final week of March.

“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.” This famous observation was made in 1954 by Jacques Barzun, a French-born scholar of American culture, and highlights the game’s special connection to some inner cores of American civilization.

Kazu TAWA, IBAF 1st Vice President, Koji Aso, IBAF Technical Commission, Ms. Megumi Kitta, IBAF Athlete Commission, Kazuhiro Tanabe, Director of Japan High School Baseball Federation and Masayuki Naito, Secretary General of Baseball Federation of Japan were guests of Mizuno’s Yoro Office in Gifu Prefecture on March 23, 2012 and inspected BBCOR (Bat-Ball Coefficient Of Restitution) Testing machine imported from U.S.A.

LAHORE, March 28: Heroics efforts by pitchers Ihsanullah helped Pakistan to win the 10th West Asia Baseball Cup, after chalking-up a 4-1 win against Sri Lanka in the last league match at the Punjab Stadium here on Wednesday.

LAHORE, March 27: Iran routed out Afghanistan 14-0 to secure the third position in the 10th West Asia Baseball Cup at the Punjab Stadium here on Tuesday.