International Baseball Federation
The International Baseball Federation (IBAF) was from 1938 to 2013 the World Baseball Association , based in Lausanne in Switzerland .
The association was founded in 1938 . Over the years the name of the association has changed a few times. From 1944 the official name was Federación Internacional de Béisbol Amateur (FIBA) , in 1973 the competing association split off with the name Federación Mundial de Béisbol Amateur (FEMBA) . However, the associations reunited in 1976, this time under the name International Baseball Association (AINBA) . In 1984 the official abbreviation was changed to IBA , before a return to the original name International Baseball Federation and the original abbreviation IBAF was agreed in 2000 .
In 2013 the association merged with the International Softball Federation to form the World Baseball Softball Confederation .
Members
The IBAF last consisted of 112 member associations. According to continental associations, these are:
- 16 member associations of the African Baseball & Softball Association (ABSA)
- 15 member associations of the Baseball Confederation of Oceania (BCO)
- 20 member associations of the Baseball Federation of Asia (BFA)
- 39 member associations of the Confederation of European Baseball (CEB)
- this also includes the associations of the German-speaking nations Germany (member since 1953), Switzerland (member since 1982) and Austria (member since 1983).
- 26 member associations of the Pan American Baseball Confederation
President
- Leslie Mann ( United States ): 1938
- Jaime Mariné ( Cuba ): 1939-1943
- Jorge Reyes ( Mexico ): 1944 to 1945
- Pablo Morales ( Venezuela ): 1946 to 1947
- Chale Pereira ( Nicaragua ): 1948 to 1950
- Pablo Morales (Venezuela): 1951 to 1952
- Carlos M. Zecca ( Costa Rica ): 1953 to 1968
- FIBA: Juan Isa ( Netherlands Antilles ): 1969 to 1975 (FIBA from 1973 to 1975)
- FEMBA: William Fehring (USA): 1973 to 1974
- FEMBA: Carlos J. García (Nicaragua): 1975
- Manuel González Guerra (Cuba): 1976 to 1979
- Robert Smith (USA): 1981 to 1993
- Aldo Notari ( Italy ): 1993 to 2006
- Harvey Schiller (USA): 2007 to 2009
- Riccardo Fraccari (Italy): 2009 to 2013
Individual evidence
- ^ WBSC History. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 8, 2016 ; Retrieved December 7, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
