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International baseball tournament

This article is about the current baseball world championship. For the world championship before 2013, see Baseball World Cup.

The World Baseball Classic (WBC), also referred to as the Classic,^[4] is an international baseball tournament sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC),^[a] the sport's global governing body, and organized in partnership with Major League Baseball (MLB) and Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA).

The winning team is awarded the World Baseball Classic Championship Trophy.^[5][6] It is one of the two main senior baseball tournaments sanctioned by the WBSC, alongside the WBSC Premier12, but is the only one to grant the winner the title of "world champion".^[7][8][9]

The tournament, proposed in 2005 by MLB and its Players Association, was first held in 2006 as an invitational event.

It previously coexisted with Olympic baseball (until 2008) and the Baseball World Cup (until 2011) as tournaments

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