Back to index / Volver al sumarioFor the first time ever, the best players in the world contest in a nation-based tournament. Though the Major League Baseball contributed with all the 30 members of some teams, only two of these MLB players competed in the final of the first edition, while the United States did not even reach the semifinals.
Por primera vez, los mejores jugadores del mundo disputan un título por naciones. Paradójicamente, en la final de la primera edición sólo dos de los jugadores eran de las Ligas Mayores Americanas (MLB), mientras que aportaban la totalidad de los treinta integrantes de otros equipos. Los Estados Unidos, sin embargo, ni siquiera se clasificaron para las semifinales.
| Japan | Cuba |
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Ryoji
Aikawa, Norichika Aoki, Takahiro Arai, Kyuji Fujikawa, Soichi Fujita,
Kosuke Fukudome, Toshiaki Imae, Akinori Iwamura, Munenori Kawasaki,
Tatsuhiko Kinjoh, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Kubota, Takahiro
Mahara, Nobuhiko Matsunaka, Daisuke
Matsuzaka, Shinya Miyamoto, Tsuyoshi Nishioka, Michihiro Ogasawara,
Akinori Otsuka, Tomoya Satozaki, Naoyuki Shimizu, Toshiya Sugiuchi,
Ichiro Suzuki, Hitoshi Tamura, Motonobu Tanishige, Koji Uehara, Kazuhiro
Wada, Tsuyoshi Wada, Shunsuke Watanabe, Yasuhiko Yabuta. |
Leslie Anderson, Ariel Borrero, Luis Borroto, Frederich Cepeda, Michel Enriquez, Maikel Folch, Yoandy Garlobo, Yulieski Gonzalez, Yulieski Gourriel, Pedro Luis Lazo, Roger Machado, Yadel Marti, Jonder Martinez, Yunieski Maya, Juan Carlos Moreno, Vicyohandry Odelin, Adiel Palma, Eduardo Paret, Joan Carlos Pedroso, Yadiel Pedroso, Yosvany Perez, Ariel Pestano, Alexei Ramirez, Rudy Reyes, Ormari Romero, Erier Sanchez, Dennis Suarez, Carlos Tabares, Osmany Urrutia. |
Semifinals (18.Mar.06) Cuba 3-1 Dominican Republic // Japan 6-0 Korea
Final (20.Mar) Japan 10-6 Cuba
| Ps. | Country | T/F | Editions |
| 1. | Japan | 1/1 | 06 |
| 2. | Cuba | 0/1 | 06 |
| 2 | Total | 1/2 | |
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