Press release, WBSC. BRADENTON AND SARASOTA, Fla. – USA Baseball, in partnership with the Sarasota-Bradenton Local Organizing Committee and the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), today announced the postponement of the WBSC U-18…
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Netherlands Bound for Mexico as WBSC Baseball Final Qualifier Moved from Taiwan
Press release and photo by WBSC. The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has announced that the WBSC Baseball Final Qualifier to the Olympic Games of the XXXII Olympiad Tokyo 2020 has been…
World Cups Postponed for Germany, Italy (U15), France (Women’s)
Press release from WBSC. PULLY, Switzerland / TIJUANA, Mexico; 23 February 2021—The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has asked the Tijuana Organizing Committee and the Mexican government to postpone the 2021 WBSC Women’s…
WBSC to live-stream Australian Baseball League 2020-2021 season
Press release World Baseball Softball Confederation The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) and the Australian Baseball League (ABL) today jointly announced that WBSC has been awarded international live-streaming rights for the 2020-2021…
WBSC approves E-Sports as new discipline and virtual version of Baseball/Softball
Press release World Baseball Softball Confederation The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Executive Board (EB) has approved the inclusion of E-Sports as a discipline of baseball and softball, setting the stage for…
New dates released for 2021 WBSC U-18 Women’s Softball World Cup in Peru
Press release World Baseball Softball Confederation Pully, Switzerland. The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) today announced new dates for the inaugural WBSC U-18 Women’s Softball World Cup®. Originally scheduled for 2020, the…
WBSC President Riccardo Fraccari calls upon Baseball-Softball to do more to boost youth access to sport
Press release World Baseball Softball Confederation As the United Through Sports (UTS) Virtual Youth Festival 2020 gets underway today, coinciding with United Nations (UN) World Children’s Day, World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC)…
WBSC expands digital, commercial footprint with launch of wbscoceania.org
Press release World Baseball Softball Confederation Pully, Switzerland; 18 November 2020 — The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) and WBSC Oceania today jointly announced the launch of wbscoceania.org, the continental governing body’s…
WBSC to live-stream Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League games on GameTime OTT platform
Press release World Baseball Softball Confederation Pully, Switzerland; 12 November 2020 — The World Baseball Softball Confederation today announced that its OTT platform GameTime.sport has been awarded international broadcast and digital rights…
WBSC to launch ‘Premier12 Replay Series’ on YouTube, starts 2 November
Press release World Baseball Softball Confederation PULLY, Switzerland; 2 November 2020 — The World Baseball Softball Confederation today is launching the WBSC “Premier12 Replay Series”, marking the one-year anniversary since the opening…
New WBSC Academy opens first online courses in push to further globalise baseball, softball
Press release World Baseball Softball Confederation PULLY, Switzerland; 30 October 2020 — The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) today announced that the WBSC Academy, a global development initiative, will officially begin courses…
New WBSC Integrity Unit releases updated Baseball5 official ball certification programme
Press release World Baseball Softball Confederation PULLY, Switzerland; 29 October 2020 — The World Baseball Softball Confederation’s (WBSC) newly established Integrity Unit today released the updated Baseball5 official game ball certification programme…
WBSC, GameTime to live-stream final of Japanese Women’s Baseball League on 31 October
Press release World Baseball Softball Confederation PULLY, Switzerland; 29 October 2020 — The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) today announced it has been awarded the international digital rights of the national championship…
WBSC establishes new Integrity Unit to safeguard future of baseball and softball
Press release World Baseball Softball Confederation PULLY, Switzerland. — The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) announced the establishment of the WBSC Integrity Unit, a centralised hub for promoting and ensuring integrity within…
WBSC Women’s, U-15 Baseball World Cups in Mexico postponed to March 2021
Press release World Baseball Softball Confederation PULLY, Switzerland/TIJUANA, Mexico.— The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), the Mexican Baseball Federation and the respective Local Organizing Committee, jointly announced the postponement of the 2020…
WBSC’s ‘GameTime’ channel to live-stream inaugural Taiwan Baseball5 Championships
Press release World Baseball Softball Confederation PULLY, Switzerland.– The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), together with the Chinese Taipei Baseball Association (CTBA), announced today that WBSC and its GameTime media platform will…
WBSC’s ‘GameTime’ platform awarded exclusive live-stream rights of Panama National Baseball League
Press release World Baseball Softball Confederation PULLY, Switzerland; — The World Baseball Softball Confederation announced today an agreement securing the exclusive international rights to live-stream the upcoming season of the Panama National…
2021 WBSC Europe Congress has been postponed
Press release In light of the continued COVID-19 pandemic spread and the numbers of cases throughout Europe and the World, the WBSC Europe Executive Board decided to postpone the 2021 Congress to…
WBSC confirms new dates for inaugural U-18 Women’s Softball World Cup in Lima, Peru
Press release World Baseball Softball Confederation PULLY, Switzerland; 1 October 2020 — The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) today announced the new dates for the inaugural WBSC U-18 Women’s Softball World Cup®,…
WBSC publishes new Baseball5 rulebook for the 5-on-5 urban game
Press release World Baseball Softball Confederation PULLY, Switzerland; 24 September 2020 — The WBSC has published the 2021 edition of the Baseball5 rulebook for the fast-paced five-on-five Youth Olympic discipline. Baseball5 Rulebook…
WBSC’s GameTime video platform to show Cuban Baseball’s Serie Nacional games
Press release World Baseball Softball Confederation PULLY, Switzerland; 11 September 2020 — The World Baseball Softball Confederation today announced that its OTT platform GameTime.sport has won the exclusive international broadcast and digital…
WBSC Academy unveiled: Executive Board applauds new e-learning platform
Press release World Baseball Softball Confederation PULLY, Switzerland. The WBSC Executive Board (EB), meeting online for the second time in two months, gave their unanimous approval to the WBSC Academy, the international…
ProBeis Mexican Prospects League to open on 20 August, games to be live-streamed via gametime.sport
Press release World Baseball Softball Confederation PULLY, Switzerland; 19 August 2020 — The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) is proud to announce that the 2020 Mexican Prospects League (Liga de Prospectos de…
Baseball, softball world governing body WBSC opens permanent headquarters in Switzerland
Press release World Baseball Softball Confederation PULLY, Switzerland. — The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has officially opened its new and permanent global headquarters in Pully, Switzerland, directly adjacent to the Olympic…
WBSC U23 Baseball World Cup 2020 in Mexico postponed to 2021
Press release World Baseball Softball Confederation LAUSANNE, Switzerland — 30 June 2020 — The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), together with the Mexican Baseball Federation and respective Local Organizing Committee (LOC), today…