14/08/2023 1 Minute Read

Zimbabwe holds softball training camp for U-12 pitchers and catchers

The camp involved 27 players - 15 girls and 12 boys. The Zimbabwe Softball Association’s technical director, Grant Machikiti and former Zimbabwe senior men’s team pitcher Alfred Sithole led the coaching staff.

09/08/2023 1 Minute Read

Zambia launches U-15 Baseball5 National Championship

The competition, involving 15 teams, opened at OlympiAfrica Centre in Lusaka and will run through to 9 September.

21/07/2023 2 Minute Read

Taichung inaugurates International Softball Complex

It's the first complex of the sort in Taiwan. Taichung City was awarded the status of World Baseball City by the WBSC in 2013.

07/07/2023 1 Minute Read

MLB Cup, First Pitch reach hundreds of teams, thousands of kids in China

The development initiatives thrive. The Spring edition of the MLB Cup involved 536 teams. The First Pitch programme took baseball to over 100,000 students in 84 schools.

27/06/2023 1 Minute Read

Blind Baseball continues to develop across Italy

AIBxC and FIBS are working on new teams in Sicily and Calabria. The following projects will reach visually impaired communities in Piemonte and Tuscany.

26/06/2023 1 Minute Read

Baseball5 courses staged in Sierra Leone with support of National Olympic Committee and Olympic Solidarity

After successful courses for educators, Joseph Kanena Kanu, the president of the Sierra Leone Baseball and Softball Association, announced that Baseball5 balls would be distributed in all the regions.

20/06/2023 2 Minute Read

World Refugee Day: WBSC hosts Baseball5 Open Day at Azraq Refugee Camp to drive home message of integration

The WBSC Baseball5 Refugee Team welcomed a team from a local village to train and play at the Azraq Refugee Camp’s facility in a game that drove home the power of sport to unite people.

20/06/2023 2 Minute Read

Athletes hail transformative nature of Baseball5 after Youth World Cup qualifier in Africa

Players participating in the WBSC Africa Youth Baseball5 World Cup qualifier in Ghana last month reflect on the opportunities that the five-aside urban sport has given them and their desire to continue growing the game.

16/06/2023 2 Minute Read

Miroslawa Cumba: "Women umpires made history in Cuba, now we need to keep working hard

Meet the 43-year-old umpire from Guantanamo who made history in the 62nd Cuban National League alongside three other women who are breaking barriers and blazing a trail for women in the country.

14/06/2023 1 Minute Read

Blind Baseball features at International Symposium in Italy

The International Symposium on Physical Activity and Individuals with Visual Impairments or Deafblindness took place in Parma and featured scholars, practitioners, and parents from 12 countries. Blind baseball was the WBSC's flagship parasport in 2022 with the launch of the Blind Baseball International Cup.