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The Dominican Republic national baseball team is the national baseball team of the Dominican Republic. The team has won the Baseball World Cup in 1948 and World Baseball Classic in 2013. They are the first team to have won both world competitions. They are currently ranked the 9th-best in the world by the World Baseball Softball Confederation. At the Olympics in 2021 it faced Israel,Japan,Mexico,South Korea,and the United States.
The Netherlands national baseball team is the national baseball team of the Kingdom of the Netherlands,representing the country in international men's baseball. They are currently ranked as the best team in the WBSC Europe,and the team is also ranked seventh in the WBSC World Rankings.
The Beijing Tigers is one of the four charter teams in the China Baseball League. The Tigers played at the 5,000-capacity Beijing Fengtai Baseball Field until 2006,when the stadium was destroyed and rebuilt as the Fengtai Softball Field. Their stadium for the 2006 season was relocated to Lucheng,a rural area to the south of Beijing.
The Israel National Baseball Team represents Israel in international competitions. It is managed by Ian Kinsler.
Yurendell Eithel DeCaster is a Dutch professional baseball third baseman. He played part of one season in Major League Baseball with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He played for Team Netherlands in the 2019 European Baseball Championship,and at the Africa/Europe 2020 Olympic Qualification tournament,in Italy in September 2019.
Berry van Driel is a Dutch professional baseball player. A pitcher,he has pitched in the Netherlands for the Netherlands national baseball team.
Garrett Patrick Stubbs is an American professional baseball catcher for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in MLB for the Houston Astros. Stubbs attended the University of Southern California (USC),and played college baseball for the USC Trojans. While there,he won the 2015 Johnny Bench Award as the nation's best collegiate catcher.
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Joshua John Palacios is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Toronto Blue Jays and Washington Nationals.
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Pool A of the first round of the 2017 World Baseball Classic was held at Gocheok Sky Dome,Seoul,South Korea from March 6 to 9,2017,between Israel and the Netherlands and South Korea and Taiwan. Pool A was a round-robin tournament. Each team played the other three teams once,with the top two teams advancing to Pool E.
Jim Ploeger is a Dutch professional baseball pitcher for L&D Amsterdam in the Dutch Major Leagues.
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