The U-18 Baseball World Cup is the 18-and-under baseball world championship sanctioned by the

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(IBAF) and its successor, the

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(WBSC), and was first held in 1981 in the United States. Because it is a world championship, the results of the U-18 Baseball World Cup affect the

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. Several players who have participated in the U-18 Baseball World Cup have gone on to stardom at the professional level, including Japan's

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, USA's

Clayton Kershaw Clayton Edward Kershaw (born March 19, 1988) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). A left-handed starting pitcher, Kershaw has spent his entire MLB career with the Dodgers s ...

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and

Buster Posey Gerald Dempsey "Buster" Posey III (born March 27, 1987) is an American baseball executive and former professional baseball catcher. He is currently the president of baseball operations for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB ...

, and Cuba's

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and

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, among many others. Prior to 2010, the IBAF organized the World Junior Baseball Championship. The WBSC was created in 2013 when the IBAF merged with the International Softball Federation.

Results

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Medal table

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is the official WBSC designation for the team representing the state officially referred to as the

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, more commonly known as

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

. (See also

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for details.)

References

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