Baseball is a famous sport, and there are professional baseball leagues in many parts of the world. The United States, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan Province Province, Mexico, Nicaragua, Dominica, Venezuela, Panama, Puerto Rico, Canada, Italy, Australia, China and other places 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 league with 30 teams, including 29 teams from the United States and 0 teams from Canada. Each team needs to play 162 games in the regular season. At the end of the regular season, six teams in each division of the two leagues automatically won.
MLB is the top baseball league in the world. Players from all over the world try their best to stand on the MLB stage. Many players from all over the world went to America to start their MLB careers.
2. Japan Professional Baseball League (NPB)
Japanese professional baseball is divided into Central League and pacific alliance, each with 6 teams. The regular season is mainly played in their respective leagues, 144 games. After the regular season, the top three players in each league will enter the playoffs, and the champions of the two leagues will participate in a series of competitions in Japan to decide the champions.
In addition to professional baseball leagues, there are baseball leagues of all ages from elementary school to university in Japan, and even baseball games between office workers and cities, which shows the Japanese enthusiasm for baseball.
3. China Baseball League (CBL)
There is no atmosphere of baseball in our country, so baseball leagues and baseball games are not popular, and Chinese baseball leagues do not have the conditions that professional baseball should have, only semi-professional leagues. CBL was established in 2002. There were only four teams at first, and then it was expanded to seven teams. Due to sponsorship and funding problems, the number of league matches has been reduced year by year, or even suspended for two years.
However, although the development of baseball league in China is not very good, there are baseball teams.
Second, the world famous baseball game inventory
1, world baseball classic
World baseball classic is an international baseball game jointly planned by Major League Baseball, International Baseball Association and * * * (* * *). The first game was held in Japan on March 3, 2006. Teams from 16 invited countries played 39 games in four places, making it the biggest baseball event in international baseball history.
2. World Cup baseball game
The World Cup baseball game is an event organized by the International Baseball Federation, with the participation of national teams from all countries. The first tournament was held in England on 1938. At that time, only Britain and the United States participated in the competition, and Britain won the championship. At first, there were 1 World Cup baseball games every year, but it was interrupted after 1953. It changes from 196 1 to 1 every 4 years. After 1969, read 1 year. After 1974, it was decided to hold 1 every two years and continue to this day. The competition was held by several countries (regions) from Europe, Asia, North America, Central America and South America through the preliminaries, plus the host country and the last champion.
3. World Series
The World Series is the championship game held by Major League Baseball every June+10. It is the highest level professional baseball game in the United States and Canada. The American League champion and the League of Nations champion play the best of seven games (except 1903,19,19, 1920, 192 1), and the winner wins the World Series trophy. Starting from 1903, except for 1904 boycotted by the New York Giants and 1994 on strike, the World Series is held every year.
4. World Little League Baseball
The World Little League was founded by Mr. CarlStotz in William Porter on 1939, and is responsible for handling the third-class baseball events, such as the World Little League Championship, the World Youth League Championship and the World Youth League Championship. Taiwan Province Province decided not to participate in the tournament sponsored by 1997 World Little League because the team building method repeatedly violated the rules of the World Little League. Until 2003, he returned to the world again, but only participated in minor league events.
5.IBAF World Junior Baseball Championship
The IBAF World Junior Baseball Championship is an international baseball game sponsored by the International Baseball Association. The age limit for players is 12 years old. The competition was founded in July, 20 1 1 and was held in Taipei, Taiwan Province Province. The first tournament * * * has 13 national teams, including 7 in Group A and 6 in Group B. ..