1942 Amateur World Series 1942 Amateur World Series The 1942 Amateur World Series was the fifth edition of the tournament, which later was known as the Baseball World Cup. It was contested by five different teams playing twelve games each from September 26 through October 20 in Havana, Cuba, as the host team reclaimed its third championship in five attempts. There was a noticeably lower participation of teams as the effects of World War II started to be felt in the Pacific. The United States withdrew and forfeited their last four games. Therefore, the number of games contested, as opposed to slated, was actually
USA Baseball online. The 12U National Team is composed of players selected from the USA Baseball National Team Identification Series (NTIS), the 12U National Open through the 12U Open Development Camps and the 11U Futures Invitational. In 2015, the 12U National Team claimed its second world championship in a row with a 7–2 win over Chinese Taipei in the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) U-12 Baseball World Cup. The program then followed that with a silver medal at the 2016 COPABE Pan American "A" Championships. A third consecutive gold medal in the WBSC U-12 Baseball World Cup in 2017 with another 7–2