The 2007

Baseball World Cup The Baseball World Cup was an international tournament where national baseball teams from around the world competed. It was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF). Along with the World Baseball Classic, it was one of two acti ...

(BWC) was the 37th international Men's amateur

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tournament. The tournament was sanctioned by the

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, which titled it the Amateur World Series from the 1938 tournament through the 1986 AWS. The tournament was held, for the second time, in

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(which played as Chinese Taipei), from November 6 to 18. The

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defeated

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in the final, winning its third title. There were 18 participating countries, split into two groups, with the first four of each group qualifying for the finals. Games were played in four cities:

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(at

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and

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);

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(at Tianmu Baseball Stadium);

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(

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; and Yunlin ( Douliu Baseball Stadium). At one time,

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’s participation was in question due to possible sanctions to be considered by the

in the wake of their refusal to grant visas to a youth team from

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to participate in the Youth World Baseball championships in August, 2007, but they were allowed to participate. China was originally scheduled to participate in Pool B, but dropped out and was replaced by the Thai national team, who placed fifth behind China at the

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. The next two competitions were also held as the BWC tournament, which was replaced in 2015 by the quadrennial

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Group A

Table

* Chinese Taipei is the official

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designation for the team representing the state officially referred to as the Republic of China, more commonly known as

. (See also political status of Taiwan for details.) *The

, in agreement with the IBAF Executive Committee, has ruled on

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starting play with five players without insurance cover on Nov. 7 and 8 during the 37th Baseball World Cup: *#These five players were not eligible to play in the Games #3 and #11. *#The Panama team must forfeit both Games #3 and #11. *#The official result for Game #3 will be

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0. *#The official result for Game #11 will be

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0. *#The official record and final standings will reflect these changes.

Schedule

With the exception of the opening game of the tournament, all group A games are played at

and Douliu Baseball Stadium.

Group B

Table

Schedule

All group B games are played either at Tienmu Baseball Stadium in

or at

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Knockout Rounds

Awards

The

announced the following awards at the completion of the tournament.

References

External links

Main ScheduleOfficial IBAF Website
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