The final results of the International Baseball Federation’s mail-in ballot were announced today and saw unanimous approval from the IBAF membership to create a new and unified world body that would govern both baseball and softball at the international level.
The mail-in vote followed the International Softball Federation Oct. 30 Congress in Dallas, Texas (USA), where the softball membership formally approved establishing a single international baseball and softball organization to oversee the sports.
"This is another critical step in the long-term prosperity and development of softball and baseball worldwide," said IBAF president, Riccardo Fraccari.
"We are moving forward with our colleagues from softball in an effort to streamline administration, add key support to our athletes and NFs and further develop our sports, and we look forward to presenting an exceptional value proposal to the Olympic Movement for 2020 and beyond," Fraccari stated.
ISF’s President, Don Porter, received the positive news during his latest meetings with Fraccari in Rome.
"We congratulate and applaud our partners at IBAF on this historic decision which puts the interests of all our athletes and our sports first," Porter said.
"As we prepare our first important presentation to the IOC [Programme Commission] as a joint IF in a few days, this confirmation from IBAF gives us added inspiration and momentum," Porter said.
For more information contact: media@ibaf.org
As a service to our readers, Around the Rings will provide verbatimtexts of selected press releases issued by Olympic-relatedorganizations, federations, businesses and sponsors.
These press releases appear as sent to Around the Rings and are not edited for spelling, grammar or punctuation.
20 Years at #1:
Últimas Noticias
Sinner-Alcaraz, the duel that came to succeed the three phenomenons
Table tennis: Brazil’s Bruna Costa Alexandre will be Olympic and Paralympic in Paris 2024
Rugby 7s: the best player of 2023 would only play the medal match in Paris
Rhonex Kipruto, owner of the world record for the 10000 meters on the road, was suspended for six years
Katie Ledecky spoke about doping Chinese swimmers: “It’s difficult to go to Paris knowing that we’re going to compete with some of these athletes”
