Japan runs the most successful women's baseball programme in the world. Daisuke Matsuzaka (pictured) helped Japan to an Olympic baseball bronze medal at Athens 2004.

The Tokyo Dome hosted the first edition in March 2015 (pictured above). Hirokazu Ibata will manage Japan in the 2024 edition while the WBSC appointed Marco Mazzieri the Team All Euro skipper.

Alborz won the tournament at Karaj Stadium. The Iran National Olympic Committee's first vice-president Gholamreza Norouzi participated in the closing ceremony.

University of Messina, Etna Blind Paternò and San Giorgio Reggio Calabria competed in a two-day event. Paternò won the trophy. The ultimate goal is to see a team from the Strait join the Italian Blind Baseball League.

The MLB Cup visited 19 cities including Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu while the MLB First Pitch 2023 programme saw 106,684 students participate.

The toolkit is a 61-page publication introducing Baseball5 as a new discipline and as a physical education tool.

The camp involved 27 players - 15 girls and 12 boys. The Zimbabwe Softball Association’s technical director, Grant Machikiti and former Zimbabwe senior men’s team pitcher Alfred Sithole led the coaching staff.

The competition, involving 15 teams, opened at OlympiAfrica Centre in Lusaka and will run through to 9 September.

It's the first complex of the sort in Taiwan. Taichung City was awarded the status of World Baseball City by the WBSC in 2013.

The development initiatives thrive. The Spring edition of the MLB Cup involved 536 teams. The First Pitch programme took baseball to over 100,000 students in 84 schools.