Photo: Paul Stodart, GB Baseball

BaseballSoftballUK manages the Great Britain Baseball Senior National Team and U-23 Men's National Team through a delegation of authority with the British Baseball Federation, which started in 2022. With the return of baseball and softball to the Olympics in 2028, the programme was the recipient of £1 million in funding - split with Great Britain Softball - from UK Sport and Sport England in December 2024 for the lead-up to the Los Angeles games.

Led by Performance Director Gary Anderson, the Great Britain Baseball programme has achieved the following under BaseballSoftballUK's management:

  • First-ever qualification for the World Baseball Classic (September 2022)
  • First win in a World Baseball Classic; First automatic qualification for the World Baseball Classic (March 2023)
  • Silver Medal, 2023 U-23 European Baseball Championship in Austria; First Qualification for U-23 World Cup (August 2023)
  • Silver Medal, 2023 European Baseball Championships in Czechia  - second in programme history (October 2023)
  • Participated in first U-23 World Cup in China (September 2024)

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