08/01/2024 1 Minute Read

Vega Alta win Puerto Rican U-15 Baseball League

Maceteros also won the U-12 title. The National Federation announced that 30 teams participated in the two youth leagues.

08/01/2024 1 Minute Read

Olympian Woo-Suk Go signs for MLB's San Diego Padres

The 25-year-old right-hander helped Korea to a second-place finish in the 2019 WBSC Premier12 and a XIX Asian Games title.

08/01/2024 1 Minute Read

Canadian Baseball Insider Shi Davidi earns Bob Elliott Media Recognition Award

The award is named after Bob Elliott, a recipient of the Career Excellence Award, the highest recognition given by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA), presented annually by the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

04/01/2024 3 Minute Read

Yukiko Ueno: Japanese softball superstar doesn't rule out LA28 Olympic Games appearance

“I would be very happy to be back on the Olympic stage, but rather than striving for that, I would like to cherish each day and each year in front of me and face softball with even greater care," Ueno said.

03/01/2024 2 Minute Read

Kelly Kretschman celebrates softball's Olympic return, heralds momentous growth of women’s softball

Former USA softball star Kelly Kretschman, who attended the WBSC U-15 Women's Softball World Cup last year, said the WBSC Women’s Softball World Cup Finals 2024 will be "like a mini-Olympics" and expects USA and Japan to be in the final.

31/12/2023 1 Minute Read

Top-10 WBSC Baseball World Cup Plays of the Year: No. 1 Samaria Benitez (Mexico)

The best Baseball World Cup Play of 2023 belongs to Samaria Benitez, the shortstop of the Mexican Women's National Baseball Team that participated in the WBSC Women's Baseball World Cup Group A in Thunder Bay, Canada.

31/12/2023 1 Minute Read

Top-10 WBSC Softball World Cup Plays of the Year: No. 1 Ryuga Umeda (Japan)

Japan's center fielder Ryuga Umeda hit a walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the eighth inning to give his nation the WBSC U-18 Men's Softball World Cup title.

31/12/2023 8 Minute Read

2023 in Review - Top Stories of the Year

The top stories in 2023, a year in which baseball and softball made its return in the Olympic sports programme of LA28, the launch of the two-stage format for the Baseball and Softball World Cups as well as four new tournaments – U-23 Men’s Softball World Cup, U-15 Women’s Softball World Cup, Youth Baseball5 World Cup and the Baseball Champions League - plus exciting developments in eSport.

31/12/2023 1 Minute Read

WBSC/KONAMI Men's Baseball World Ranking: A 2023 to remember for Mexico

World No. 1 Japan earned the most points in 2023 but Mexico climbed three positions to become the most improved programme among the top 10. Costa Rica, up 22 places, is the most improved programme overall. The top 12 programmes qualified for the III WBSC Premier12.