Baseball World Cup
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This page links to the men's Baseball World Cup. For the women's competetion see the click here.
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 37 Baseball World Cups to date; the first tournament, held in 1938 (retroactively) featured only two teams but the last six have all featured 16 teams. The most recent World Cup was held in 2007 in Taiwan. 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 high-profile first World Baseball Classic, many commentators heralded it as a "Baseball World Cup", perhaps not realizing that a tournament by that name already exists and has 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Image:Chinese Taipei Olympic Flag.gif Chinese Taipei | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Image:Flag of Colombia.gif Colombia | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Image:Flag of Cuba.gif Cuba | 25 | 2 | 2 |
| Image:Flag of the Dominican Republic.gif Dominican Republic | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Image:Flag of Great Britain.gif Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Image:Flag of Japan.gif Japan | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Image:Flag of Mexico.gif Mexico | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| Image:Flag of Nicaragua.gif Nicaragua | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Image:Flag of Panama.gif Panama | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Image:Flag of Puerto Rico.gif Puerto Rico | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Image:Flag of South Korea.gif South Korea | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| Image:Flag of the United States.gif United States | 3 | 8 | 3 |
| Image:Flag of Venezuela.gif Venezuela | 3 | 2 | 4 |
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