In Korea, high school baseball (고등학교 야구) is played at a very high level by students who train year round. Unlike
in Japan or the U.S. where nearly every high school fields a team, there are only about 60-70
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high school
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baseball
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teams which makes the competition tantamount to an all-star league of Korea's young talent.
KBO,
MLB
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and
NPB
or NPB is the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called , meaning ''Professional Baseball''.
Outside Japan, it is often just referred to as "Japanese baseball". The roots of the league can be traced back to the formation ...
scouts are frequently in attendance at all of the five national high school baseball tournaments.
Competitions
Five major national tournaments
The five Big 5 tournaments are the most important high school
baseball
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events of the year in terms of tradition, prize-money awarded, and public attention.
National tournaments hosted by local cities
There used to be four lower-level high school baseball events of the year sponsored by local cities. However, these local tournaments have been replaced with the High School Weekend League after the 2010 season.
See also
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Baseball in Korea
Baseball is believed to have been introduced to Korea in 1905 by American missionaries during the Korean Empire, after which it gradually attained prominence. After the division of the Korean Peninsula into North Korea, backed by the Soviet Uni ...
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Baseball awards#South Korea
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Baseball awards#U.S. high-school baseball
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Japanese High School Baseball Championship
The of Japan, commonly known as , is an annual nationwide high school baseball tournament. It is the largest scale amateur sport event in Japan.
The tournament, organized by the Japan High School Baseball Federation and ''Asahi Shimbun'', t ...
(Summer
Koshien)
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championship (Spring Koshien)
References
External links
Korea Baseball Association (KBA)
Baseball in South Korea
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
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