The Mexican Baseball Federation has released its roster for the upcoming II 12U Baseball World Cup, which will be held in Taipei City from July 18 to 28.

The 2013 Major League All Star Game (the 83rd edition of the event) was mostly about emotions, but also about first times and a last time. It was, in short, a great event, hosted by New York in the Mets’ “City Field” and enjoyed a record 41,186 attendance for the venue and an unprecedented 3,500 media from all over the world.

OTTAWA- Baseball Canada is pleased to announce the names of 30 players who will represent Canada at the Canada-Japan Women’s Series in Granby, QC July 17th-21st.

LOS ANGELES – The USA Baseball 12U National Team completed the exhibition portion of its schedule on Sunday, using a seven-run first inning to cruise to a 13-8 victory over a Southern California 13U squad at the MLB Urban Youth Academy in Compton, Calif.

After playing four games in the cities of Matsuyama, Hiroshima and Utsunomiya, the Collegiate National Team of Japan and USA with the series knotted at two games apiece, Japan won the decisive game 7-3 at Meiji Jingu Stadium in Tokyo (photo) on July 11 bringing the longest-running series 22 wins for USA and 17 for Japan.

The “wicked orange-clad witch” is finally dead and Cuba reigns yet again as champion of the Rotterdam World Port Tournament. Sunday’s second-straight 4-0 shutout victory over the Dutch seemed to put an end to a run of almost uninterrupted recent Orange successes against Cuba.

The Collegiate National Team programs of USA Baseball and the Cuban Baseball Federation will compete for the second consecutive year in an international friendship series. The five-game series is officially sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation.

Cuba has won the 2013 World Port Tournament in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The record world champion claimed the title at the international tournament, which is officially sanctioned by IBAF, with a 4-0 shutout over the Dutch national team on Sunday.

Vice Minister of Sports of the Dominican Republic will represent Minister Jaime David Fernàndez Mirabal during the opening of the Summer tournament of the League La Javilla on June 29th. The tournament will be played by kids who are affected by autism and down syndrome.

On the heels of an unorthodox National Series season featuring a split campaign, two distinct divisions, drafted reinforcement players, and a rather surprising league champion, Cuban baseball now heads into its annual summer international phase with July visits to Holland (World Port Tournament) and North America (renewal of last year’s friendly series with the USA Baseball College All-Stars).