21/07/2022 1 Minute Read

One year ago today: Softball opens Tokyo 2020 Olympics

Softball made its Olympic return after being out of the Games for the 2012 and 2016 editions.

13/07/2022 1 Minute Read

Chile commemorates 105-year anniversary of baseball in the country

On 4 July 1917 American workers organized the event in the Antofagasta area. Chile's National Federation was born in 1951.

15/04/2022 1 Minute Read

Baseball celebrates 75th Jackie Robinson Day

A special logo will honour the Diamond Anniversary. Regardless of their primary colours, all teams will wear the iconic 42 number in Dodgerblue.

06/04/2022 1 Minute Read

6 April 1896: Modern Olympics open in Athens, Royals play baseball with a walking stick and an orange

During a picnic with the Greek Royal Family, 110 hurdles gold medalist Thomas Curtis, using a walking stick, challenged a battery of Princes who were using an orange as a baseball.

30/03/2022 2 Minute Read

Cuba Women's Baseball on the rise

The women's programme, ranked seventh in the world, surpassed the men's programme, currently at No.9, for the first time in 2021.

28/03/2022 2 Minute Read

WBSC Softball Hall of Fame member Joan Joyce, 1974 Women’s Softball World Championship winner, passes away at 81

Joyce won a gold medal with the U.S. National Team at the 1974 WBSC Women’s Softball World Championship, posting a 5-0 record while pitching 36 scoreless innings, over which time she struck out 76 batters and hurled three no-hitters - two of which were perfect games.

31/12/2021 5 Minute Read

2021 in Review - Top Stories of the Year

Never miss a moment! The top stories in 2021, a year in which baseball and softball returned to the Olympic Games and the international events calendar restarted following the impact of Covid-19 around the world.

04/10/2021 1 Minute Read

Clovis Lodewijks, long-time ISF Vice President and WBSC Hall of Fame member, dies at 91

The leader, born in Curacao in 1930, played a key role in the development and growing of softball in the Americas and the world.

28/06/2021 1 Minute Read

Happy 96th anniversary, Mexican Baseball League

Mexico City hosted the LMB's first-ever game on 28 June 1925. A total of 144 teams have participated in the league through 2019. After the cancellation of the 2020 season, two new teams joined LMB in 2021.

09/03/2021 1 Minute Read

Baseball Canada's 2x Olympian, former big leaguer Rheal Cormier dies at 53

The left-hander made the Canadian roster for the 1988 Seoul Games and was back 20 years later at Beijing 2008 as the oldest baseball player in those Games.