Participants 2012
 
  
 Cuba
 
 
Since 1996 Cuba has been a fixture among our participants.
When Cuba in Haarlem are the matches that Cuba plays always very special. Because if No. 1 in IBAF World Ranking and 25-time world champion, they are the team to beat.
Especially the encounter between the Netherlands and Cuba during the 2012 Baseball Week will be a very special going. This meeting is the repetition of the Worlds in Panama where the Netherlands wrote history.
 
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 Japan
 
 
The team will participate in an All Star team of universities. In Japan there is a baseball league for universities and consists of 26 federal regions. Kyushu Daigaku chiku yakyu renmmei (literally = Kyushu region in southern Japan, chiku = region = Daigaku University, yakyu = baseball = Renmei Federation) is one of the 26 regions. In Haarlem in the past have often this kind of All Star teams participated. Also at the Baseball Week 2010, the Japanese team from one of these 26 regions.

Within the baseball works, after the terrible earthquake and tsunami of March this year to the reconstruction of Japan. So for example, they play fewer night games to save power. This is especially in the north and east of Japan. Furthermore, this year one of the two major tournament, sort of national championships, not continue because of the aftermath of what happened in March.

Become pro
Each edition of the Baseball Week there will be scouts from around the world to Haarlem to see if there is talent walking around to contract. After the anniversary edition in 2010 has at least one player a pro contract after a particularly good performance. It is the 22 year old Japanese Yudai Ohno.

The pitcher made ​​sure all alone (9 innings in total) that Japan won, 4-2 of runner-up Cuba. It was Cuba with a defeat against the Netherlands lost the only two parties in 2010. Yudai Ohno comes in the Japanese professional league for the Chunichi Dragons, the club where crowd favorite Baseball Week 2008 Ryoji Nakata plays. Nakata was the strong first baseman of the Japanese that the audience was elected Most Popular Player.
 
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 Netherlands
 
 
For the Netherlands there is a special Baseball Week waiting for after profit in July 2010 during the anniversary edition was the next time the Dutch team Haarlem was a very historic. Netherlands was due to winning the world in November 2011 on the Grand Place in our city celebrated in grand style.
 
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 Puerto Rico
 
 
For Puerto Rico it is the 2nd time in the history that they will take part. In 1992 they were at the 16th Haarlemse Honkbalweek 5e. Puerto Rico is currently in 9th place at the IBAF World ranking. During the last World Championships in Panama they not survived the 1st round. There were such victories over Japan (6-0) and the United States (8-4), but lost 0-5 to the Netherlands.
 
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 Chinese Taipei
 
 
Chinese Taipei came to Haarlem in 1984 for the first time and now again for the 10th time at the Haarlem Baseball Week. The Asians were also present in 1988, 1990, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008. Two years ago, in 2008, Chinese Taipei experienced the highest ranking ever, third place. In previous editions, the team finished in fourth place five times and twice in the sixth position. At the 2010 edition they become 5th. The beat Japan twice.
 
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 USA
 
 
USA is the last team contracted for the Haarlem Baseball Week 2012.
Between April and June 2012, USA Baseball players are going to be invited and a players with the potential for the future. Several players are in the past already released for the national team, but in the youth.

Before team USA travels to Haarlem they will first make a stopover in Havana where they will play some practice matches against Cuba.
 
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