Hawaii national baseball team

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Hawaii national baseball team
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Hawaii at the 1940 Amateur World Series
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CountryFlag of Hawaii.svg  Hawaii
Federation International Baseball Federation
International Baseball Congress
World Cup
Appearances1 (first in 1940 )
Best result5th ( 1940 )

The Hawaii national baseball team was the national baseball team of the Territory of Hawaii. It represented the territory in international competitions before Hawaii was granted statehood in 1959; Hawaii now competes as part of the United States national team.

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Hawaii competed in the third edition of the Amateur World Series in 1940, where it finished fifth.

Hawaii also participated in the 1940 East Asian Games, held in Tokyo as a substitute for the canceled 1940 Summer Olympics. The territory was represented by the Hawaii Asahis amateur team. It lost all three of its games to Japan (4–3), the Philippines (4–2), and Manchukuo (1–0). [1] [2]

Hawaii was represented by the Honolulu Red Sox at the 1955 and 1956 Global World Series, organized by the National Baseball Congress. However, at the 1957 installment of the tournament, the territory was represented by a selection of Hawaiian all-stars. [3]

Competitive Record

Amateur World Series

Amateur World Series & Baseball World Cup record
YearResultPositionPldWL%RSRAOrg.
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 1938 Did not enter IBF
Flag of Cuba.svg 1939
Flag of Cuba.svg 1940 Single-table tournament5th1257.4175149
Flag of Cuba.svg 1941 Did not enter
Flag of Cuba.svg 1942
Flag of Cuba.svg 1943
Flag of Venezuela.svg 1944 FIBA
Flag of Venezuela.svg 1945
Flag of Colombia.svg 1947
Flag of Nicaragua.svg 1948
Flag of Nicaragua.svg 1950
Flag of Mexico.svg 1951
Flag of Cuba.svg 1952
Flag of Venezuela.svg 1953
Total0 Titles1/141257.4175149

    East Asian Games

    Global World Series

    Notable players

    References

    1. Guthrie-Shimizu, Sayuri (2012). Transpacific Field of Dreams: How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War. University of North Carolina Press. p. 171. ISBN   9780807882665.
    2. Bedingfield, Gary (April 2022). "The 1940 Keio University Baseball Tour of Hawaii". Baseball in Wartime Newsletter (58): 13.
    3. "Some Answers on the Global Series". Center for Labor Education & Research, University of Hawaii. Honolulu Record. 15 August 1957. Retrieved 27 July 2024.