The newly elected president of the Korea Baseball Association (KBA) Mr. Lee, Byung-Suk met IBAF President Riccardo Fraccari at the Italian Olympic Committee headquarters, near the famed Foro Italico in Rome.

The accomplishments of 2012 were a success because of the joint efforts of many. The challenges of 2013 will require full cooperation from everyone

IBAF President Riccardo Fraccari will be attending the World Baseball Classic press conference, scheduled at 1.30 pm local time (10.30 pm CET) in San Francisco’s AT&T Park. Fraccari will confirm the IBAF sanctioning of the event, that will award the winners as the World Champions starting the 2013 edition.

The International Baseball Federation (IBAF) announced that President Riccardo Fraccari received from City of Tainan the honorary position of Executive Advisor for the Pacific Baseball Training Center project, a project initiated by City of Tainan that involves 1.57 billion NTD (about 52 million US Dollar) budget with 4 baseball fields, accommodation facilities and restaurants to be built to host international and national baseball teams.

Yoshio Yoshida, member of the IBAF Olympic Reinstatement Commission (ORC) and NPB Hall of Famer will be visiting Rome on Tuesday, June 26th to meet with IBAF President Riccardo Fraccari to discuss ongoing matters of Baseball reinstatement onto the 2020 Olympic Programme.

In 1890 Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Four years later at the end of the first Olympic Congress at Sorbonne University in Paris, on June 23, 1894 to be correct, they decided to hold the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens.

During the SportAccord Convention in Quebec City (Canada) key positions within the international sport movement were covered.

The IOC President, in the final 16 months, received the “Onesti” prize, dedicated to the memory of former Italian Olympic Committee President

It’s very unlikely that baseball will be as popular as soccer in The Netherlands but, as Rob Eenhoorn (Technical Director of the Dutch Federation, KNBSB) warns: “Never say never. We just won a World Championship and not so long ago this looked simply like a dream”.

Samurai Japan (an All Star team of the NPB, the Japanese Major Leagues) beat the All Stars of the CPBL (the professional League in Chinese Taipei) 9-2 in a charity game played Saturday 3/10 at the Tokyo Dome in front of a 35,505 fans in attendance. The game was meant as a fundraiser for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011. A total of 12,000 tickets were give to residents from disaster struck areas.