* International Baseball Federation ( IBAF ), an international governing body for baseball

British baseball matches have also regularly taken place at the Arms Park and hosted the annual England versus Wales international game every four years.

Haarlem is known for hosting several international sports tournaments as well: the Haarlemse Honkbalweek ( Haarlem Baseball Week ), a baseball event held every two years at the Pim Mulier Stadium ( named after Pim Mulier ), and the Haarlem Basketball Classic, a basketball event.

The stadium also hosted international matches – both for England and in the 1948 Summer Olympics – and FA Cup semi-finals, as well as boxing, baseball and cricket matches.

The DT's are estimated Major League equivalent performance statistics based on player statistics from minor league and international baseball.

Newport is one of three main cities where British baseball is still played – the others are Cardiff and Liverpool – and the city hosts a Wales-England international match every four years at Coronation Park.

Carew has also worked at various times as a minor league and spring training hitting and base running coach for the Twins and serves as an international youth baseball instructor for Major League Baseball.

It is the owner of the Chunichi Dragons baseball team, and is also known as the main organizer of a famous international gymnastics event, the Chunichi Cup.

Official scorers for international baseball competitions are generally selected by the organizer of the competition.

Hancock's original game of indoor baseball quickly caught on in popularity, becoming international with the formation of a league in Toronto.

Fidel Castro's belief in socialism and the benefits of sports ( he loves and has played baseball ) has resulted in Cuba's relative international success for a population of 11 million in sporting events such as the Olympic Games.

Programs which won national and international awards included baseball, debate, orchestra, and science programs.

A month after this announcement, the IOC voted to eliminate baseball from the 2012 London Olympic games, leaving the WBC as the only international tournament to feature American professionals.

* Albert Park, Lismore, home to international baseball stadium Baxter Field

Facilities include a double gymnasium and two other gymnasia, supporting basketball and volleyball courts ; a fitness center and a weight room, totalling ; a 25-meter, six-lane swimming pool ; an enclosed hockey rink ; a 400-meter, eight-lane, all-weather track ; eight international squash courts ; 17 tennis courts ; a cross-country course ; two baseball diamonds ; two softball diamonds ; 17 fields for football, soccer, lacrosse and field hockey ; and a golf practice driving range, putting green and sand trap.

The International Baseball Federation ( Spanish: Federación Internacional de Béisbol ) is the worldwide governing body recognized by the International Olympic Committee as overseeing, deciding and executing the policy of the bat-and-ball sport of baseball at the international level.

One of its principal responsibilities is to organize, standardize and sanction international competitions among its 118 national member federations through its various tournaments to determine a world champion and calculate world rankings for both men's baseball.

The first-ever international baseball event was a series of exhibition games that

The exposure of baseball to an international audience continued at the 1956 Summer Olympic Games, which saw approximately 114, 000 spectators slowly fill the Melbourne Cricket Ground to witness Australia vs. USA in a demonstration contest in Melbourne, Australia.

: Note: Although Puerto Rico is a United States commonwealth, it competes separately in international baseball.

Throughout its history, the ground has also been used for a range of other sports, including athletics carnivals, Australian rules football, baseball, soccer, rugby league, rugby union, international rules football.

On June 26, 2009, it was announced that he violated the IBAF / World Anti-Doping Agency doping regulation during the 2009 World Baseball Classic by taking Phentermine and is banned from international baseball tournament for two years.

The Baseball World Cup was an international tournament in which national baseball teams from around the world competed.

However, the 2006 World Baseball Classic was the first international baseball tournament to include players from the major leagues, making it a closer equivalent to the other world cups — which include players from the most prestigious professional leagues — than the Baseball World Cup.

The BWF organizes several international competitions, including the Thomas Cup, the premier men's international team event first held in 1948 – 1949, and the Uber Cup, the women's equivalent first held in 1956 – 1957.

In some competitions, boards are pre-dealt prior to the competition, especially if the same hands are to be played at many locations ( for example in a large national or international tournament ).

Provincial or national colours are often assigned in national and international competitions.

Despite the fact that many of Bacardi's offerings are aimed at the lower and middle-part of the price spectrum, Bacardí rums have been entered in a number of international spirit ratings competitions.

Some organisations, including the International Federation of Dominos and the Fédération Internationale de Domino ( FIDO ), organise international competitions.

Other areas of concern are the selection of personnel for the specialised Diving committees and for coaching and officiating at events, and the team selection for international competitions.

USA Diving is sanctioned by the United States Olympic Committee for selecting team representatives for international diving competitions including the Olympic Games.

The main competitive season runs from February to July, although some competitions may be held in January or December, and many divers ( particularly international level athletes ) will train and compete year round.

Once again, qualification is based on achieving minimum scores at earlier competitions ( in this case, within the 12 months preceding the national championships, and in an Open age group event ), or high placements in previous national championships or international competitions.

After the World Cup, the most important international football competitions are the continental championships, which are organised by each continental confederation and contested between national teams.

The teams finishing at the top of a country's league may be eligible also to play in international club competitions in the following season.

The growth in women's football has seen major competitions being launched at both national and international level mirroring the male competitions.

Water-based synthetic turfs enable the ball to be transferred more quickly than on the original sand-based surfaces and it is this characteristic that has made them the surface of choice for international and national league competitions.

It defines the rules of chess, both for playing individual games ( i. e. the board and moves ) and for the conduct of international competitions.

The international competition rules are the basis for local competitions, although local bodies are allowed to modify these rules to a certain extent.

Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level ( senior ), and at local, national, and international competitions.

The International Skating Union ( ISU ) regulates international figure skating judging and competitions.

Major international competitions are sanctioned by the ISU.

There are also many international floorball club competitions.

From then on until the early 1950s, both national and international competitions involved a changing variety of exercises gathered under the rubric, gymnastics, that would seem strange to today's audiences and that included for example, synchronized team floor calisthenics, rope climbing, high jumping, running, and horizontal ladder.

There are / were two big international competitions for classical music in Hanover:

In the 1990s, harmonica players in Hong Kong began to participate in international harmonica competitions, including the World Harmonica Festival in Germany and the Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival.