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The '''Baseball World Cup''' was an international tournament where national [[baseball]] teams from around the world competed. It was sanctioned by the [[International Baseball Federation]] (IBAF). Along with the [[World Baseball Classic]], it was one of two active tournaments considered by the IBAF to be a major world championship.<ref name="ibaf world ranking notes">{{cite web |url=http://ibaf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Files_-_world_rankings/4221-IBAF_World_Rankings_Notes.pdf |title=IBAF World Ranking Notes |date=13 January 2009 |access-date=23 June 2009 |publisher=International Baseball Federation |format=PDF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509034100/http://ibaf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Files_-_world_rankings/4221-IBAF_World_Rankings_Notes.pdf |archive-date=9 May 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[Baseball at the Summer Olympics|baseball tournament]] at the [[Summer Olympic Games]] was also considered a major world championship while baseball was an Olympic sport.<ref name="olympic exclusion">{{cite web|url=http://www.olympic.org/uk/organisation/commissions/programme/full_story_uk.asp?id=1437|title=Singapore 2005: 2012 Olympic Sport Vote|publisher=International Olympic Committee|date=11 July 2005|access-date=23 July 2009}}</ref>
The '''Baseball World Cup''' ('''BWC''') was an international [[baseball]] tournament for national teams around the world, sanctioned by the [[International Baseball Federation]] (IBAF). First held [[1938 Amateur World Series|in 1938]] as the '''Amateur World Series''' ('''AWS'''), it was, for most of its history, the highest level of international baseball competition in the world. Even after it was supplanted in this regard in {{by|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 [[Baseball at the Summer Olympics|Summer Olympic Games]].<ref name="ibaf world ranking notes">{{cite web |url=http://ibaf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Files_-_world_rankings/4221-IBAF_World_Rankings_Notes.pdf |title=IBAF World Ranking Notes |date=13 January 2009 |access-date=23 June 2009 |publisher=International Baseball Federation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509034100/http://ibaf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Files_-_world_rankings/4221-IBAF_World_Rankings_Notes.pdf |archive-date=9 May 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="olympic exclusion">{{cite web|url=http://www.olympic.org/uk/organisation/commissions/programme/full_story_uk.asp?id=1437|title=Singapore 2005: 2012 Olympic Sport Vote|publisher=International Olympic Committee|date=11 July 2005|access-date=23 July 2009}}</ref>


After the 2011 tournament, the Baseball World Cup was discontinued in favor of an expanded World Baseball Classic tournament. The [[World Baseball Softball Confederation]] (WBSC) – successor to the IBAF – now sanctions two new tournaments: the biennial [[23U Baseball World Cup]] (begun as the 21U Baseball World Cup in 2014) and WBSC's quadrennial, flagship tournament – involving the twelve best-ranked national teams in the world – called the [[WBSC Premier12]] (starting in [[2015 WBSC Premier12|2015]]).<ref>[http://www.ibaf.org/en/news/2011/12/03/the-congress-approved-a-new-format-of-internationa/cd3e0ea8-a62d-4c01-85f5-4c2aafba5119 The Congress approved a new format of International tournaments]</ref>
After the 2011 tournament, the Baseball World Cup was discontinued in favor of an expanded World Baseball Classic; the [[World Baseball Softball Confederation]] (WBSC) – successor to the IBAF – now [[World Baseball Classic Inc.|organizes]] the WBC and awards its winner the title of "World Champion."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wbsc-bucket.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/event+media+book/201909_WBSC_premier12_magazine_WEB.pdf |title=Premier12 2019 Official Program - Page 6 |work=WBSC |access-date=26 November 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191127012323/https://wbsc-bucket.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/event+media+book/201909_WBSC_premier12_magazine_WEB.pdf | archive-date= 27 November 2019 }}</ref> Additionally, the WBSC sanctions two new tournaments: the biennial [[23U Baseball World Cup]] (begun as the 21U Baseball World Cup in 2014) and its quadrennial, flagship tournament, the [[WBSC Premier12]] (starting in [[2015 WBSC Premier12|2015]]), which involves the twelve best-ranked national teams in the world.<ref>[http://www.ibaf.org/en/news/2011/12/03/the-congress-approved-a-new-format-of-internationa/cd3e0ea8-a62d-4c01-85f5-4c2aafba5119 The Congress approved a new format of International tournaments]</ref>


==History==
==History==
The Baseball World Cup was held 38 times; the final one was in [[2011 Baseball World Cup|2011]] in [[Panama]]. The first tournament, held in [[1938 Amateur World Series|1938]], featured only two teams, but the last tournament included 22 participants; the previous two featured 16 and 18 teams (in [[2007 Baseball World Cup|2007]] and [[2005 Baseball World Cup|2005]], respectively). The World Cup was originally called the Amateur World Series, until the tournament in [[1988 Baseball World Cup|1988]]. Until 1988, the Amateur World Series was held in intervals of one to four years, except for the eight-year period from 1953 to 1961. From 1988 to 2001, the Baseball World Cup was held in intervals of two to four years. After 2001, the tournament was held every two years.
The Baseball World Cup was held 38 times; the final one was in [[2011 Baseball World Cup|2011]] in [[Panama]]. The first tournament, held in [[1938 Amateur World Series|1938]], featured only two teams, but the last tournament included 22 participants; the previous two featured 16 and 18 teams (in [[2007 Baseball World Cup|2007]] and [[2005 Baseball World Cup|2005]], respectively). The World Cup was originally called the Amateur World Series, until the tournament in [[1988 Baseball World Cup|1988]].


The idea of a baseball competition for national teams was championed by International Baseball Federation (IBF) president [[Leslie Mann (athlete)|Leslie Mann]]. After managing to include baseball as a [[demonstration sport]] at the [[Baseball at the 1936 Summer Olympics|1936 Berlin Olympics]], Mann sought to organize an international tournament in 1937 between the national teams of the [[United States national baseball team|United States]] and [[Japan national baseball team|Japan]]; this plan was derailed by the outbreak of the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] that same year.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Guthrie-Shimizu |first1=Sayuri |title=Transpacific Field of Dreams: How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War |date=2012 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |isbn=9780807882665 |page=171 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dx2i3f5k6MkC&dq=leslie+mann+%22amateur+world+series%22+-wiki&pg=PA171-IA16}}</ref> Instead, Mann wrote to [[John Moores (British businessman)|John Moores]], president of the British National Baseball Association (the precursor to the modern [[British Baseball Federation]]) to organize a tournament between the U.S. and [[Great Britain national baseball team|Great Britain]] teams. The 1938 "John Moores Cup," as it was originally called, would be retroactively recognized as the [[1938 Amateur World Series|first Amateur World Series]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Leslie Mann |author1-link=Leslie Mann (athlete) |title=Baseball Around the World |date=1940 |pages=19–26 |publisher=International Amateur Baseball Federation |url=https://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15370coll2/id/20987/hawa}}</ref>
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Until 1998 the competition was limited to amateur players. After [[1998 Baseball World Cup|1998]], professional [[minor league baseball|minor league]] players competed, but [[Major League Baseball]] did not allow its players to participate. In the months leading up to the high-profile first [[World Baseball Classic]] in [[2006 World Baseball Classic|2006]], many commentators heralded it as a "Baseball World Cup", perhaps not realizing that a tournament of that description already existed and had for almost seventy years. However, the [[2006 World Baseball Classic]] was the first international baseball tournament to include players from the professional major leagues around the world, making it a closer equivalent to the world cups of other sports—which commonly include players from the most prestigious professional leagues of each respective sport—than to the amateur or non-elite Baseball World Cup.

Mann, along with Cuban sports administrator [[Jaime Mariné]], helped turn the Amateur World Series into an annual event in [[1939 Amateur World Series|1939]], this time held in Cuba.<ref>{{cite web |title=WBSC Headquarters: After decades of relocations, Switzerland is now the permanent home of international baseball |url=https://www.wbsc.org/en/news/wbsc-headquarters-after-decades-of-relocations-switzerland-is-now-the-permanent-home-of-international-baseball |website=WBSC.org |publisher=World Baseball Softball Confederation}}</ref><ref>Mann, p. 26</ref> The first and second tournaments featured only two and three national teams, respectively, but seven participants were invited to the [[1940 Amateur World Series|1940 edition]] and the pool would only expand from there.

[[File:Wereldkampioenschappen honkbal in Haarlem tussen Cuba en Puerto Rico Lourdes G, Bestanddeelnr 933-7144.jpg|thumb|[[Lourdes Gourriel|Lourdes Gurriel]] at the 1986 AWS]]
For much of its early existence, the competition was limited to the nations of Central America and the Caribbean; the [[United States national team|United States]] withdrew early from the [[1942 Amateur World Series|1942 series]], and would not return until [[1969 Amateur World Series|1969]]. The next edition, in [[1970 Amateur World Series|1970]], saw two European national teams ([[Italy national baseball team|Italy]] and [[Netherlands national baseball team|the Netherlands]]) participate for the first time; in 1972, [[Japan national baseball team|Japan]] became the first Asian country to participate in the global baseball tournament.

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Until 1998 the competition was limited to strictly amateur players. After [[1998 Baseball World Cup|1998]], professional [[minor league baseball|minor league]] players competed, but [[Major League Baseball]] did not allow its players to participate. In the months leading up to the high-profile first [[World Baseball Classic]] in [[2006 World Baseball Classic|2006]], many commentators heralded it as a "Baseball World Cup", perhaps not realizing that a tournament of that description already existed and had for almost seventy years.

However, the [[2006 World Baseball Classic]] was the first international baseball tournament to include active players from the top-level major leagues around the world — namely [[Major League Baseball]] and [[Nippon Professional Baseball]] — making it a closer equivalent to the world cups of other sports, which commonly include players from the most prestigious professional leagues, than to the mostly-amateur Baseball World Cup.

==Trophy==
The champions of the first several Amateur World Series tournaments were presented the John Moores Trophy, named in honor of [[John Moores (British businessman)|John Moores]], a sponsor of the British Baseball Federation and future [[Everton F.C.]] executive.<ref>{{cite web |title=Amateur World Series |website=WBSC.org |publisher=World Baseball Softball Confederation |url=https://www.wbsc.org/fr/organisation/history/international-baseball}}</ref> Like the [[Stanley Cup]], it was a single trophy passed from winner to winner, with the names of the world champions engraved; however, only the winners of the 1938, 1939, and 1940 editions are engraved ([[Great Britain national baseball team|England]] and [[Cuba national baseball team|Cuba]]); the United States withdrew from the AWS in [[1942 Amateur World Series|1942]], and the trophy was apparently not awarded after that.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Leslie Mann |author1-link=Leslie Mann (athlete) |title=Baseball Around the World |date=1940 |publisher=International Amateur Baseball Federation |url=https://springfieldcollege.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/enwiki/api/collection/p15370coll2/id/20987/page/0/inline/p15370coll2_20987_0}}</ref><ref name="auction">{{cite web |title=Lot #52: THE JOHN MOORES TROPHY (1938) |url=https://catalog.scpauctions.com/the_john_moores_trophy__1938___a_sterling_silver_m-lot28556.aspx |website=SCP Auctions |access-date=5 March 2024}}</ref>{{efn|The John Moores Trophy does reflect two tournaments in 1950 and 1956, won by the United States and Hawaii, respectively, but these were not Amateur World Series.<ref name="auction"/>}}

When [[Jaime Mariné]] succeeded [[Leslie Mann (athlete)|Leslie Mann]] as president of the IBF during the [[1940 Amateur World Series]], he renamed the trophy the ''Copa Presidente Batista'', after [[Fulgencio Batista]], the president of Cuba.<ref>{{cite web |title=THE HISTORY OF IBAF |url=https://sportingscribe.com/league/841/international/baseball/international-baseball-federation |website=Sporting Scribe |access-date=5 March 2024}}</ref> Mariné had participated in the [[Cuban Revolution of 1933]] that brought Batista to power and had organized the dictator's Military Intelligence Service in 1935.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Riccardo Schiroli |title=The Game We Love |date=2019 |publisher=World Baseball Softball Confederation |page=30}}</ref>


==Tournament results==
==Tournament results==
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|1951<br>''[[1951 Amateur World Series|Details]]''
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==Medal table==
==Medal table==
[[File:Cuba national team 1939.jpg|thumb|200px|Cuba won its first world championship in 1939]]
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*[[Baseball awards#World]]
*[[Baseball awards#World]]
*[[Baseball at the Summer Olympics]]
*[[Baseball at the Summer Olympics]]
*[[Intercontinental Cup (baseball)|Intercontinental Cup]] (International Baseball Federation (IBAF))
*[[Intercontinental Cup (baseball)|Intercontinental Cup]]
*[[International Amateur Baseball Tournament]]
*[[Global World Series]]
*[[WBSC Premier12]]
*[[WBSC Premier12]]
*[[World Baseball Classic]]
*[[World Baseball Classic]]

==Notes==
{{notelist}}


==References==
==References==

Latest revision as of 22:00, 24 December 2024

This article is about the baseball world championship organized until 2011. For the current world championship organized from 2013, see World Baseball Classic.
Baseball World Cup
Most recent season or competition:
2011 Baseball World Cup
The John Moores Trophy awarded in 1938
SportBaseball
Founded1938
Ceased2011
No. of teams16 (in 2011)
ContinentInternational
Last
champion(s)		 Netherlands
Most titles Cuba (25 titles)
WBSC Championship
Amateur World Series
Baseball World Cup
World Baseball Classic

The Baseball World Cup (BWC) was an international baseball tournament for national teams around the world, sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF). First held in 1938 as the Amateur World Series (AWS), it was, for most of 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.[1][2]

After the 2011 tournament, the Baseball World Cup was discontinued in favor of an expanded World Baseball Classic; the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) – successor to the IBAF – now organizes the WBC and awards its winner the title of "World Champion."[3] Additionally, the WBSC sanctions two new tournaments: the biennial 23U Baseball World Cup (begun as the 21U Baseball World Cup in 2014) and its quadrennial, flagship tournament, the WBSC Premier12 (starting in 2015), which involves the twelve best-ranked national teams in the world.[4]

History

[edit]

The Baseball World Cup was held 38 times; the final one was in 2011 in Panama. The first tournament, held in 1938, featured only two teams, but the last tournament included 22 participants; the previous two featured 16 and 18 teams (in 2007 and 2005, respectively). The World Cup was originally called the Amateur World Series, until the tournament in 1988.

The idea of a baseball competition for national teams was championed by International Baseball Federation (IBF) president Leslie Mann. After managing to include baseball as a demonstration sport at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Mann sought to organize an international tournament in 1937 between the national teams of the United States and Japan; this plan was derailed by the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War that same year.[5] Instead, Mann wrote to John Moores, president of the British National Baseball Association (the precursor to the modern British Baseball Federation) to organize a tournament between the U.S. and Great Britain teams. The 1938 "John Moores Cup," as it was originally called, would be retroactively recognized as the first Amateur World Series.[6]

Mann, along with Cuban sports administrator Jaime Mariné, helped turn the Amateur World Series into an annual event in 1939, this time held in Cuba.[7][8] The first and second tournaments featured only two and three national teams, respectively, but seven participants were invited to the 1940 edition and the pool would only expand from there.

Lourdes Gurriel at the 1986 AWS

For much of its early existence, the competition was limited to the nations of Central America and the Caribbean; the United States withdrew early from the 1942 series, and would not return until 1969. The next edition, in 1970, saw two European national teams (Italy and the Netherlands) participate for the first time; in 1972, Japan became the first Asian country to participate in the global baseball tournament.

Until 1998 the competition was limited to strictly amateur players. After 1998, professional minor league players competed, but Major League Baseball did not allow 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 existed and had for almost seventy years.

However, the 2006 World Baseball Classic was the first international baseball tournament to include active players from the top-level major leagues around the world — namely Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball — making it a closer equivalent to the world cups of other sports, which commonly include players from the most prestigious professional leagues, than to the mostly-amateur Baseball World Cup.

Trophy

[edit]

The champions of the first several Amateur World Series tournaments were presented the John Moores Trophy, named in honor of John Moores, a sponsor of the British Baseball Federation and future Everton F.C. executive.[9] Like the Stanley Cup, it was a single trophy passed from winner to winner, with the names of the world champions engraved; however, only the winners of the 1938, 1939, and 1940 editions are engraved (England and Cuba); the United States withdrew from the AWS in 1942, and the trophy was apparently not awarded after that.[10][11][a]

When Jaime Mariné succeeded Leslie Mann as president of the IBF during the 1940 Amateur World Series, he renamed the trophy the Copa Presidente Batista, after Fulgencio Batista, the president of Cuba.[12] Mariné had participated in the Cuban Revolution of 1933 that brought Batista to power and had organized the dictator's Military Intelligence Service in 1935.[13]

Tournament results

[edit]
Year Final Host Final four Number of teams
Champions Runners-up 3rd place 4th place
Amateur World Series
1938
Details 		United Kingdom
Great Britain
Great Britain
United States 		– – 2
1939
Details 		Cuba
Cuba
Cuba
Nicaragua
United States 		– 3
1940
Details 		Cuba
Cuba
Cuba
Nicaragua
United States
Venezuela 		7
1941
Details 		Cuba
Cuba
Venezuela
Cuba
Mexico
Panama 		9
1942
Details 		Cuba
Cuba
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Venezuela
Mexico 		5
1943
Details 		Cuba
Cuba
Cuba
Mexico
Dominican Republic
Panama 		4
1944
Details 		Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela
Mexico
Cuba
Panama 		8
1945
Details 		Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela
Colombia
Panama
Nicaragua 		6
1947
Details 		Colombia
Colombia
Colombia
Puerto Rico
Nicaragua
Mexico 		9
1948
Details 		Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Dominican Republic
Puerto Rico
Colombia
Mexico 		8
1950
Details 		Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Venezuela
Panama 		12
1951
Details 		Mexico
Mexico
Puerto Rico
Venezuela
Cuba
Dominican Republic 		11
1952
Details 		Cuba
Cuba
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Puerto Rico
Panama 		13
1953
Details 		Venezuela
Venezuela
Cuba
Venezuela
Nicaragua
Dominican Republic 		11
1961
Details 		Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Cuba
Mexico
Venezuela
Panama 		10
1965
Details 		Colombia
Colombia
Colombia
Mexico
Puerto Rico
Panama 		9
1969
Details 		Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
Cuba
United States
Dominican Republic
Venezuela 		11
1970
Details 		Colombia
Colombia
Cuba
United States
Puerto Rico
Colombia 		12
1971
Details 		Cuba
Cuba
Cuba
Colombia
Nicaragua
Puerto Rico 		10
1972
Details 		Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Cuba
United States
Nicaragua
Japan 		16
1973
Details 		Cuba
Cuba
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Venezuela
Dominican Republic 		8
1973
Details 		Nicaragua
Nicaragua
United States
Nicaragua
Puerto Rico
Colombia 		11
1974
Details 		United States
United States
United States
Nicaragua
Colombia
Dominican Republic 		9
1976
Details 		Colombia
Colombia
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Japan
Nicaragua 		11
1978
Details 		Italy
Italy
Cuba
United States
South Korea
Japan 		11
1980
Details 		Japan
Japan
Cuba
South Korea
Japan
United States 		12
1982
Details 		South Korea
South Korea
South Korea
Japan
United States
Chinese Taipei 		10
1984
Details 		Cuba
Cuba
Cuba
Chinese Taipei
United States
Japan 		13
1986
Details 		Netherlands
Netherlands
Cuba
South Korea
Chinese Taipei
United States 		12
Baseball World Cup
1988
Details 		Italy
Italy
Cuba
United States
Chinese Taipei
Japan 		12
1990
Details 		Canada
Canada
Cuba
Nicaragua
South Korea
Puerto Rico 		12
1994
Details 		Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Cuba
South Korea
Japan
Nicaragua 		16
1998
Details 		Italy
Italy
Cuba
South Korea
Nicaragua
Italy 		16
2001
Details 		Taiwan
Taiwan
Cuba
United States
Chinese Taipei
Japan 		16
2003
Details 		Cuba
Cuba
Cuba
Panama
Japan
Chinese Taipei 		16
2005
Details 		Netherlands
Netherlands
Cuba
South Korea
Panama
Netherlands 		18
2007
Details 		Taiwan
Taiwan
United States
Cuba
Japan
Netherlands 		16
2009
Details 		Italy
Italy
United States
Cuba
Canada
Puerto Rico 		22
2011
Details 		Panama
Panama
Netherlands
Cuba
Canada
United States 		16

Medal table

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Cuba won its first world championship in 1939
Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Cuba 25 4 2 31
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
8  Netherlands 1 0 0 1
10  Nicaragua 0 5 5 10
11  Mexico 0 4 1 5
12  Japan 0 1 5 6
13  Chinese Taipei 0 1 3 4
14  Panama 0 1 2 3
15  Canada 0 0 2 2
Total 39 39 38 116

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ The John Moores Trophy does reflect two tournaments in 1950 and 1956, won by the United States and Hawaii, respectively, but these were not Amateur World Series.[11]

References

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  1. ^ "IBAF World Ranking Notes" (PDF). International Baseball Federation. 13 January 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 May 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2009.
  2. ^ "Singapore 2005: 2012 Olympic Sport Vote". International Olympic Committee. 11 July 2005. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
  3. ^ "Premier12 2019 Official Program - Page 6" (PDF). WBSC. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 November 2019. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  4. ^ The Congress approved a new format of International tournaments
  5. ^ Guthrie-Shimizu, Sayuri (2012). Transpacific Field of Dreams: How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War. University of North Carolina Press. p. 171. ISBN 9780807882665.
  6. ^ Leslie Mann (1940). Baseball Around the World. International Amateur Baseball Federation. pp. 19–26.
  7. ^ "WBSC Headquarters: After decades of relocations, Switzerland is now the permanent home of international baseball". WBSC.org. World Baseball Softball Confederation.
  8. ^ Mann, p. 26
  9. ^ "Amateur World Series". WBSC.org. World Baseball Softball Confederation.
  10. ^ Leslie Mann (1940). Baseball Around the World. International Amateur Baseball Federation.
  11. ^ a b "Lot #52: THE JOHN MOORES TROPHY (1938)". SCP Auctions. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  12. ^ "THE HISTORY OF IBAF". Sporting Scribe. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  13. ^ Riccardo Schiroli (2019). The Game We Love. World Baseball Softball Confederation. p. 30.
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