Baseball in the United Kingdom

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rdf:langString Baseball is a growing, minor sport in the United Kingdom, with an estimated 22,500 people playing in 2020. The sport is governed by the British Baseball Federation, which runs a multi-tier national league. There are also independent regional leagues, and around 20 universities field teams currently in existence. In 1938 the Great Britain national baseball team won the Baseball World Cup, and were runners-up in the 1967 and 2007 European Baseball Championship. As of 2020 Great Britain competed internationally at under 12, under 15, under 18, under 23 and senior levels. The under 23 team placed fifth at the 2019 European Under 23 Baseball Championship. Despite relatively low numbers of participation in the United Kingdom, there have been a number players to have played in Major League Baseball. (MLB) Amongst over 90 British and Irish players to have played in the MLB Danny Cox, Lance Painter and Bobby Thomson are notable. Thomson hit the Shot Heard 'Round the World that took the New York Giants to the World Series in 1951. A number of high-profile MLB players who can trace their ancestry to Britain and who qualified to represent the Great Britain national team despite never residing in the United Kingdom include former British national team coach and Hall of Fame inductee Trevor Hoffman, whose mother was English and whose grandfather was a professional footballer with Southend United.

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