Media registration is now open for the WBSC Baseball Europe/Africa Qualifying Event for the Games of the XXXII Olympiad Tokyo 2020, which is scheduled for 18-22 September in the Italian cities of Bologna and Parma.

The Israeli Baseball National team defeated Lithuania in a three-game series and qualified for the European Championship. The top five teams of the Euros will advance to the Europe-Africa Olympic Qualifier

As a rookie for the NPB Yomiuri Giants, he earned 20 wins in 1999. He started and won for Japan the 2006 World Baseball Classic semifinal against Korea. Later he converted into a star closer and one the 2013 World Series with the Red Sox

Watch an eleven-minute video about the Baseball Africa Cup and know more about the story of the National Team that will represent the Continent at the Tokyo 2020 Qualifier and about the development of the game in Africa

Baseball is Africa is expanding as eight new nations on the continent are expected to debut in the update of the WBSC World Rankings. South Africa’s manager Neil Adonis commented: “We are determined to increase the interest in baseball within our country and in Africa.”

The final of the Baseball Africa Cup saw the hosts dominate against Uganda. Zimbabwe won an 11-inning thriller to claim third place. In the Baseball Europe-Africa Olympic Qualifier in Italy South Africa will face fice European National Teams

The hosts need two more wins to advance to the WBSC Baseball Europe-Africa Qualifying Event for the games of the XXXII Olympiad Tokyo 2020. No other National Team seems capable of matching their level of pitching

Uganda and Burkina Faso will open at 11, local time, on Wednesday 1 May the Baseball Africa Cup. The winner of the six-team tournament will advance to the Europe-Africa WBSC Qualifying Event to the 2020 Olympic Games

A single match between South Africa and Zimbabwe, to be played on Monday, 29 April, at 12:30 local time, will decide who will enter the Africa Cup as the top seed out of Africa’s Zone South and determine the order of the schedule.

Lesotho withdrew from the three-team tournament, so both National Teams will advance to the Africa Cup, to be played from 1 to 5 March in Johannesburg, South Africa. The seeding will determine the schedule of the six-team tournament