2011 World Youth Baseball Championship Taiwan for details.) " The team from Cuba did not arrive in time in Mexico for the tournament and lost their first game due to forfeit, which was scheduled against the Netherlands. "" The team from the Dominican Republic did not arrive in Mexico and lost all their games due to forfeit. 2011 World Youth Baseball Championship The 2011 World Youth Baseball Championship was an under-16 international baseball competition held in Lagos de Moreno, Mexico from August 19 to August 28, 2011. This event is considered a test event for the 2011 Pan American Games baseball event. Eleven teams participated
USA Baseball Team Development Programs (NTDP). The National Team Championships first started in 1997 as the USA Junior Olympic Baseball Championships and was a joint venture between USA Baseball and the United States Olympic Committee. At its inception, the event was a tournament for 16-and-under travel baseball teams that was used to identify talent for the USA Baseball 16U National Team. When USA Baseball moved from New Jersey to Arizona in 1998, the then-56 team tournament moved out west as well, where it was contested at the Spring Training homes of the Colorado Rockies and the Chicago White Sox/Arizona Diamondbacks. With the