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World Baseball Classic
The
World Baseball Classic
(
WBC
) is an international baseball tournament sanctioned from 2006 to 2013 by the
International Baseball Federation
(IBAF) and after 2013 by the
World Baseball Softball Confederation
(WBSC). It was proposed to the IBAF by
Major League Baseball
(MLB), the
Major League Baseball Players Association
(MLBPA), and other professional baseball leagues and their players associations around the world. It is the main baseball tournament sanctioned by the WBSC, which grants to the winner the title of "World Champion". It previously coexisted with
Olympic Baseball
(until 2008) and the
Baseball World Cup
(until 2011) as IBAF–sanctioned tournaments, but baseball has not been on the Olympic program since 2008, after it was voted out by the
International Olympic Committee
in 2005. The final men's Baseball World Cup was held in 2011, and was discontinued to streamline the international calendar. The
2013 Classic
, the third edition of the event, was won by the
Dominican Republic
in an
all-Caribbean World Baseball Classic Final
.
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