IBAF Cites Baseball Happenings as Socially Positive

With the 2009 World Baseball Classic underway, the IBAF shard some of their recent successes with BaseballReflections.com . As many readers may remember, the IBAF is the governing body of international baseball and is in charge of all international tournaments involving the sport of baseball, including the WBC. The IBAF is proud that they were able to organize the WBC which started in San Juan, Mexico City, Tokyo and Toronto and will be televised in over 220 countries. Overall, the event will make over $15 million that will go towards developing the sport of baseball for people of all genders and races worldwide. The IBAF also announced that more drug tests were given to baseball players last year than any other team sport. In 2007 there were 16,971 drug tests given in baseball which was the most in the sport’s history. This was done in order to make the sport of baseball more attractive for future Olympic committee’s in an attempt to bring the sport back to the Olympics once aga...