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128 men's national baseball teams associated to WBSC. The five confederations are: Africa — African Baseball & Softball Association (ABSA) Americas — Pan American Baseball Confederation (COPABE) Asia — Baseball Federation of Asia (BFA) Europe — Confederation of European Baseball (CEB) Oceania — Baseball Confederation of Oceania (BCO)
Baseball returned as a demonstration sport at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Again an eight-team tournament, the United States finished first in the tournament, defeating Japan, 5–3, in the final game. Baseball became an official medal sport beginning with the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Competition was open only to male amateurs ...
USA Baseball in its modern form was established as a result of the Amateur Sports Act of 1978, which officially recognized the United States Olympic Committee and allowed it to sanction international amateur sport, including baseball. [5]
Try to read baseball signs in this 3D augmented reality experience created by the Yahoo Sports team.
The period before 1920 in baseball was known as the dead-ball era; players rarely hit home runs during this time. Baseball survived a conspiracy to fix the 1919 World Series, which came to be known as the Black Sox Scandal. The sport rose in popularity in the 1920s, and survived potential downturns during the Great Depression and World War II.
The first formal baseball league outside of the United States and Canada was founded in 1878 in Cuba, which maintains a rich baseball tradition and whose national team has been one of the world's strongest since international play began in the late 1930s (all organized baseball in the country has officially been amateur since the Cuban Revolution).
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The WBSC Americas, formerly known as Pan American Baseball Confederation (COPABE, Spanish: Confederación Panamericana de Béisbol, Portuguese: Confederação Pan-Americana de Beisebol), is the governing body of baseball and softball within the Americas.