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The Great Britain national baseball team is the national baseball team of the United Kingdom. It is governed by the British Baseball Federation, and is a member nation of the Confederation of European Baseball.
[edit] History
Great Britain has participated in the Baseball World Cup several times, winning the inaugural event in 1938, when it was held in Great Britain between the British and American teams.
In 2007, the team were runners up at the European Baseball Championship, finishing top of Group B and only losing two games in the entire tournament, finishing second to the Netherlands and so qualified for the Final Qualifying Tournament in Taiwan for the 2008 Summer Olympics. However, a lack of funding including the refusal by UK Sport to provide any backing, meant they were forced to withdraw from the Final Qualifying tournament and were replaced by Germany.[1]
[edit] Placings
Baseball World Cup
- 1938 :
1st
European Baseball Championship
- 1967 :
 2nd
- 1969 : did not qualify
- 1971 : 7th
- 1973 : did not qualify
- 1975 : did not qualify
- 1977 : did not qualify
- 1979 : did not qualify
- 1981 : did not qualify
- 1983 : did not qualify
- 1985 : did not qualify
- 1987 : did not qualify
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- 1989 : 7th
- 1991 : 8th
- 1993 : did not qualify
- 1995 : did not qualify
- 1997 : 9th
- 1999 : 9th
- 2001 : 10th
- 2003 : 9th
- 2005 : 7th
- 2007 : 2nd
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[edit] References
[edit] External links
Great Britain
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