Women's baseball

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Women play baseball currently in several countries. The strongest and most organized women's baseball leagues are in Australia, Japan, and Canada. Those countries support girls' and women's baseball programs. In 2006 seven countries competed in the 2006 Women's World Cup in Taiwan. Those countries were Australia, Canada, Chinese Taipei, Cuba, Hong Kong, Japan and the United States. The International Baseball Federation has sanctioned Women's World Cup events biannually through 2012.

Some countries/regions that currently have organized women's baseball are the United States of America, Canada, Japan, Australia, Korea, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), Hong Kong and Cuba. Teams from the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and India have appeared in international or nation women's events. Women who love baseball also play in men's leagues in other areas of the world where there currently aren't any women's leagues.

There are many organizations around the world that are helping to build baseball opportunities for women. A few within the U.S. are the North American Women's Baseball League http://www.nawbl.com American Women's Baseball Federation http://www.awbf.org, the Women's Baseball League http://www.baseballglory.com, United States Women's Baseball http://www.uswb.org, and USA Baseball http://www.usabaseball.com. A women's baseball forum can be found at http://cogbl.com/forum.htm, and several women's baseball links can be found at http://dmoz.org/Sports/Baseball/Women/. Also, you can find links to many related sites, articles and access to a public blog at Girls Baseball League Dot Org http://www.girlsbaseballleague.org/gbl. Lists of and links to teams and leagues can be found on these and other sites.