Abstract: Baseball is a ball game that is mainly characterized by baseball playing and is highly collective and confrontational. It has complicated and difficult technical rules, ever-changing situation changes, and extremely demanding requirements. High teamwork is hailed by business elites as the sport "closest to business war". It is widely carried out internationally and has great influence. It is especially popular in the United States and Japan and is known as the "national sport". At the same time, there are many international baseball leagues and events, such as the World Baseball Classic, Little League World Series, World Cup and so on. Let’s take a look at baseball’s famous events. 1. What are the international professional baseball leagues?
Baseball is a famous sport. There are professional leagues of this sport in many regions in the world, such as the United States, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Mexico, Nicaragua, The Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Panama, Puerto Rico, Canada, Italy, Australia, China and other places all have professional or semi-professional baseball leagues.
1. Major League Baseball (MLB)
Major League Baseball is the highest level professional baseball league in North America. Founded in 1903, it is a world-famous professional baseball league. A league of 30 teams, including 29 American teams and 1 Canadian team. Each team needs to play 162 games in the regular season. At the end of the regular season, the division champions of the two leagues***6 Each team automatically enters the playoffs, and the four teams with the highest winning percentage, excluding the championship team, play in the wild card round to compete for two playoff tickets.
MLB is the world's top baseball league. Players from all over the world strive to be on the MLB stage. Many players from around the world have gone to the United States to start their MLB careers.
2. Nippon Professional Baseball League (NPB)
The Nippon Professional Baseball League is divided into the Central League and the Pacific League, each with 6 teams. The regular seasons are mainly played under their respective leagues. , there are 144 games. After the regular season, the top three teams in each league enter the playoffs. The champions of the two leagues meet in the Japan series to determine the championship.
In addition to professional baseball leagues, Japan has baseball leagues for all ages from primary school to university, and there are even baseball games between office workers and cities, which shows the enthusiasm of Japanese people for baseball.
3. China Baseball League (CBL)
There is no baseball atmosphere in our country, so baseball leagues and baseball are not popular, and the Chinese Baseball League does not have professional baseball applications. Some conditions are only semi-professional level leagues. The CBL was founded in 2002. It initially had only 4 teams, and later expanded to 7 teams. In the middle, due to sponsorship and funding issues, the number of league games shrank year by year, and it even stopped for two years.
However, although China’s baseball league has not developed very well, there are still baseball teams.
2. Inventory of world-famous baseball games
1. World Baseball Classic
The World Baseball Classic is organized by Major League Baseball and the International Baseball Federation. , an international baseball tournament co-planned by ***, the first match was held in Japan on March 3, 2006. Representative teams from sixteen invited countries were divided into four places to play a total of thirty-nine games. The event is the largest baseball event in the history of international baseball.
2. World Cup Baseball Game
The World Cup Baseball Game is an event organized by the International Baseball Federation and is participated by the national teams of various countries. The first event was held in the United Kingdom in 1938. At that time, only the British and American teams participated, and the United Kingdom won the championship. Initially, the World Cup Baseball Tournament was held once a year, but was discontinued after 1953. Since 1961, it has been held every four years. After 1969, it was changed to once a year. After 1974, it was scheduled to be held every two years and is held biennially, and continues to this day. The competition consists of several countries (regions) from Europe, Asia, North America, Central America, and South America through preliminaries, plus the host country and the previous champion to hold the finals.
3. World Series
The World Series is the Major League Baseball Championship held every October. It is the highest level professional baseball event in the United States and Canada. The American League champion and the National League champion will play a best-of-seven championship game (except in 1903, 1919, 1920, and 1921, when a best-of-nine game was used). The winning team will receive the World Series trophy. Since 1903, the World Series has been held every year except for the 1904 New York Giants boycott and the 1994 players' strike.
4. Little League of the World
The Little League of the World was founded in Williamsport in 1939 by Mr. Carl Stotz and is responsible for managing the World Little League Championship and the World Youth Baseball Championship. In 1997, Taiwan decided not to participate in events hosted by Little League Baseball because the team formation methods frequently failed to comply with Little League regulations. He returned to the Little League World League in 2003, but only participated in some Little League events.
5. IBAF World Little League Championship
The IBAF World Little League Championship is an international baseball competition hosted by the International Baseball Federation. The age limit for participating players is under 12 years old. This tournament was founded in July 2011 and held in Taipei, Taiwan.
There were 13 national teams participating in the first tournament, including 7 teams in Group A and 6 teams in Group B.