United Kingdom national baseball team
| Great Britain national baseball team | |
|---|---|
| Information | |
| Country |
 United Kingdom |
| Federation | British Baseball Federation |
| Confederation | Confederation of European Baseball |
| World Cup | |
| Appearances | 2 (First in 1938) |
| Best result | 1st  (1938) |
| European Championship | |
| Appearances | 10 (First in 1967) |
| Best result | 2nd  (1967 & 2007) |
The Great Britain national baseball team is the national men's baseball team of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It is governed by the British Baseball Federation, and is also a member nation of the Confederation of European Baseball.
Great Britain competed in the qualifying round of the 2017 World Baseball Classic, where it was defeated in the finals by Team Israel.
The United Kingdom is credited with winning the inaugural Baseball World Cup (BWC) in 1938, beating the United States by four games to one in an international series (the Amateur World Series) hosted in England. This series was subsequently declared the first world championship of amateur baseball by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF) and so Great Britain became the first World Amateur Champions. However, it was over 70 years before the team qualified for another world championship event, reaching the 2009 Baseball World Cup by virtue of its second-place finish at the 2007 European Baseball Championship.
In 2007, the Great Britain team won the silver medal at the European Baseball Championship (EC), finishing top of Group B and only losing two games in the entire tournament. It ultimately finished second overall to the Netherlands. This marked Britain's highest placing in the tournament since its first entry into the event in 1967, when it also finished second.
Prior to 2007 the team's showing in the EC was generally limited to finishing in the lower half of the standings which sometimes meant relegation to the secondary tournament known as the European Baseball Championship Qualifier (sometimes referred to as the 'B-Pool'). In 1988 and 1996 Great Britain hosted and won the Qualifier thereby returning to the main European Championship event the following year (sometimes referred to as the 'A-Pool'). Since the silver medal in 2007, Great Britain has on occasion had to repeat the process of qualification through the B-Pool.
...
Wikipedia