World Baseball Classic players representing 10 different countries have been named to an All-WBC team, with Japan and Puerto Rico leading the way with nine representatives each. All-time WBC individual leaders in various statistical categories through the end of the 2017 tournament, excluding qualifier games. Batting Pitching The winning team of each World Baseball Classic is rewarded a large silver trophy as its primary recognition. The two trophies earned by Japan during the inaugural and second classics have been on display at the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. In addition to the standard rules of baseball, the World Baseball Classic employs the following
When I Consider How My Light is Spent When I Consider How My Light is Spent "When I Consider How My Light is Spent" is one of the best known of the sonnets of John Milton (d. 1674). The last three lines (concluding with "They also serve who only stand and wait.") are particularly well known, although rarely quoted in context. In the US, it is perhaps most known in pop culture for the Hall of Fame baseball broadcaster Vin Scully, who would recite it when showing a player not in the game. The sonnet was first published in Milton's 1673 Poems. In his autograph notebook (known as