Baseball World Cup
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This page discusses the men's Baseball World Cup. For the women's competition, see Women's Baseball World Cup.
The Baseball World Cup is an international tournament in which national baseball teams compete for the position of top national team in the world. It is sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation, and was first held in 1938.
[edit] History
There have been 38 Baseball World Cup tournaments to date; the first, held in 1938 (retroactively) featured only two teams while the latest event featured 22 nations. The most recent World Cup was held in 2009 in Europe. The tournament generally receives little publicity, and certainly does not begin to approach the popularity of soccer's World Cup. In the months leading up to the first World Baseball Classic, many commentators heralded that high-profile event as a "Baseball World Cup," perhaps not realizing that a tournament by that name has existed for almost seventy years.
For a list of past MVPs, see Baseball World Cup Most Valuable Player.
[edit] Tournament Results
[edit] Competing Nations
| Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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 Canada | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Chinese Taipei | 0 | 1 | 3 |
 Colombia | 2 | 2 | 2 |
 Cuba | 25 | 3 | 2 |
 Dominican Republic | 1 | 3 | 2 |
 United Kingdom | 1 | 0 | 0 |
 Japan | 0 | 1 | 5 |
 Mexico | 0 | 4 | 1 |
 Nicaragua | 0 | 5 | 5 |
 Panama | 0 | 1 | 2 |
 Puerto Rico | 1 | 4 | 4 |
 South Korea | 1 | 5 | 2 |
 United States | 4 | 8 | 3 |
 Venezuela | 3 | 2 | 4 |
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