World Baseball Classic - Format

The World Baseball Classic is an international baseball tournament, featuring Major League players, to be first held in March 2006 and in 2009, as well as every four years thereafter. It is the first international baseball tournament to feature major-league players; the Summer Olympics regularly features college and minor-league players, since it conflicts with the MLB season. World Baseball Classic - Announcement. The tournament was announced in May 2005. MLB had been attempting to create such a tournament ...

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• World Baseball Classic - Announcement
• World Baseball Classic - Cuba
• World Baseball Classic - Format
• World Baseball Classic - Pool A
• World Baseball Classic - Pool B
• World Baseball Classic - Pool C
• World Baseball Classic - Pool D

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The tournament was announced in May 2005. MLB had been attempting to create such a tournament for at least two years; negotiations with the players union and with the owners had held the plan back. Owners, notably Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, had been concerned about their star players being injured in professional play before even spring training begins. This was a concern for the union as well, but their primary objection was with drug testing: MLB wanted the more strenuous Olympic standards in place for the tournament, while the uni ...

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World Baseball Classic, World Baseball Classic - Announcement, World Baseball Classic - Cuba, World Baseball Classic - Format, World Baseball Classic - Pool A, World Baseball Classic - Pool B, World Baseball Classic - Pool C, World Baseball Classic - Pool D

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