A record 67 countries and territories are now ranked in Women’s Softball. Puerto Rico and Mexico hit historic highs, move into the top five of the world rankings for thefirst time. Japan earned the most world rankings points in 2018.
Bolivia, Indonesia, Lesotho, Malaysia, Zimbabwe make historic debuts in new Women’s Softball World Rankings; USA No. 1
WBSC launches World Rankings web platform for Baseball, Softball
The new WBSC World Rankings website features robust functions such as tracking, trends, top climbers, charts, country-by-country comparisons, ranking by continent, points earned by each National Team/Federation per competition, methodology, and a world rankings news section in six languages.
Baseball5 a mean to build baseball softball community in the French Caribbean
Midji Verdol, the President of the Ligue des Antilles et Guyane Françaises de Baseball, Softball and Cricket, hosted the clinic in Guadalupe. She considers Baseball5 instrumental to the building of a baseball softball community in the French speaking islands of the Caribbean
WBSC partners with Romanian federation and city of Alexandria to build new baseball/softball field and programmes
With the announcement of a new facility and programmes, the city of Alexandria is set to become the baseball/softball capitol of Romania.
Globalization: New modern baseball softball stadium to be built in Spain
A brand new baseball softball stadium will be built in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, marking a huge step forward for the sport in Spain. It will be the first exclusive baseball softball facility in Gran Canaria island
Seminars in Africa, Turkey conclude WBSC Development Programmes 2018
It’s been a productive year for WBSC Development Programmes and the month of December will be particularly intense, with seminars happening in Kenya, Tanzania and Turkey. The series of event will start over early in 2019
Japan, Canada, Chinese Taipei lead new WBSC Women’s Baseball World Rankings
The latest rankings reflect the results of over 100 matches from the Women’s Baseball World Cup across an evaluation period of 2014-2018.
BayStars Yamasaki: “I will do my best to be selected for Tokyo 2020”
IOC leadership is convinced that Tokyo Olympics have all of the ingredients for success. Yokohama DeNA Bay Stars pitcher Yasuaki Yamasaki spoke of the interest that the return of baseball and softball generate to world sport leaders, including WBSC President Fraccari
Yokohama, Fukushima stadiums allow Olympic Baseball/Softball to be played in same venue for first time ever
For the first time in history, men’s baseball and women’s softball events at the Olympic Games will be staged in the same venues, representing a new cost-effective model that will make baseball and softball more attractive to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and host cities around the world.
WBSC to launch new Softball World Cups: U-23 Men’s and U-15 Women’s
The two new Softball World Cups will be first staged in 2021 and be positioned as the highest-level softball competitions in their respective age-categories, with the winners officially earning the title of World Champion.