The 2020 will be a historic year for the WBSC family, with the historic return of baseball softball to the Olympic Games and seven global events, including the first-ever Baseball5 World Cup. Mexico will host a total of four events next year, including three baseball World Cups: U-15, U-23 and Women's Baseball. Mexico will also host the aforementioned Baseball5 World Cup and the U-15 Baseball5 World Cup. For softball, 2020 will also be a historic year, not only for the Olympic return but also because WBSC will organize the first-ever U-18 Softball World Cups, both for Men and Women (in Palmerston North, New Zealand; and Lima, Peru, respectively).

The opening speech of the third WBSC Congress focused on globalization and the need of making the games of baseball and softball up to date and appealing for the younger generations "More than two years have passed since the Botswana Congress. There are no more than eight months left until the opening of the Tokyo Olympic Games." 

 

Empowering the member federations was the tagline for the WBSC Open Workshops held on the eve of the third WBSC Congress, and they responded accordingly with packed rooms across all four topics - Coach Commission Project, Scoring Application, Baseball5 and Website/OTT Platform. The most number of participants attended the Workshop on Baseball5, the urban version of Baseball Softball that WBSC has developed over the past couple of years.