23 July 2021
ABL Community Corporate News Team Australia
Team Australia will not be in Tokyo when baseball makes its Olympic return next week but the country will still have an on-field representative.
New South Welshman Trent Thomas is headed to Japan this weekend as a member of the 12-person umpiring crew.
25 March 2020
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have been postponed and will take place no later than the northern hemisphere summer of 2021.
The International Olympic Committee overnight announced it had decided, in consultation with the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee and Japan Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, to postpone the games to safeguard the health of the athletes and the community.
21 January 2020
Three Australian officials have been assigned to the 2020 Olympics by the World Baseball Softball Confederation.
Jennie Maloney, Trent Thomas and David Nagy have each been appointed to the Tokyo games.
22 September 2019
Israel have become the first team to qualify alongside hosts Japan for the 2020 Olympics after winning the WBSC Baseball Europe/Africa Qualifier in Italy overnight.
Former big leaguer Danny Valencia’s three-run homer in the eighth capped off an 11-1 win over South Africa in Parma as Israel secured its spot in the six-team Olympic baseball tournament for the first time.
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