09 June 2021
Boral Team Australia has withdrawn from this month’s WBSC Final Olympic Qualifier in Mexico due to “insurmountable” challenges.
Baseball Australia chief executive Glenn Williams confirmed this morning Australia would not be sending a team to the June 22-26 event which had been originally scheduled in Taiwan from the 16th.
21 May 2021
Next month’s last-chance Olympic qualifier will be held in Mexico after local authorities in Taiwan enforced a range of new restrictions following a surge in COVID-19 cases.
The World Baseball Softball Confederation overnight announced Mexico would host the event, which was scheduled to get underway in Taiwan on June 16.
17 March 2021
The WBSC Baseball Final Qualifier will take place from June 16-20 in Taiwan.
WBSC overnight set new dates for the six-team last-chance Olympic qualifier, which was originally scheduled to take place in Taichung and Douliu from April 1-5 last year.
10 December 2020
The Baseball5 World Cup will be played in even years starting in 2022, the World Baseball Softball Confederation announced overnight.
WBSC had originally scheduled the mixed gender competition for this year but it was postponed due to COVID-19.
14 October 2020
The World Baseball Softball Confederation has postponed the 2020 Women’s Baseball World Cup for a second time.
Mexico will now host the 12-team tournament, which was originally slated for September, from March 1-9 next year.
06 October 2020
Australia will host the first-ever Oceania Baseball5 Qualifier in 2021.
The event – which will feature mixed-gender open and youth divisions – will decide Oceania’s representatives at the WBSC Baseball5 World Cup and Youth Baseball5 World Cup slated for next June in Mexico.
16 July 2020
Baseball5’s debut at the Youth Olympic Games has been put on hold after the International Olympic Committee and Dakar 2022 host nation Senegal agreed to postpone the event until 2026.
The decision comes as the coronavirus pandemic continues to cause widespread concern around much of the world and after it already forced a major reshuffle of the IOC’s calendar, including the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics by a year.
03 June 2020
The World Baseball Softball Confederation overnight set new dates for this year’s Women’s Baseball World Cup.
WBSC has rescheduled the 12-team tournament for November 12-21 in Tijuana, Mexico.
02 April 2020
This year’s WBSC Women’s Baseball World Cup has become the latest event postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The WBSC overnight announced the Women’s World Cup, slated for Mexico in September, was one three global baseball or softball events to be postponed until further notice.
02 September 2019
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Australia and Cuba are a step closer to contesting regular international baseball as part of an ongoing commitment between the two nations announced over the weekend.
The federations will work together to introduce regular series for national teams and grow Baseball5 in Australia after signing a memorandum of understanding in Havana, Cuba, on Saturday morning following ongoing discussions.
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