Latest update December 4th, 2024 2:40 AM
GBL President reports on historic Africa WBSC Congress
President of The Guyana Baseball League Robin Singh returned from the historic and first-ever World Baseball Softball Congress in Africa, held in HAMMAMET, Tunisia.
The inaugural congress of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) elected Italy’s Riccardo Fraccari to lead the world governing body as its first-ever sole president.
GBL President Robin Singh presents a gift to Cuba’s Antonio Castro on behalf of COPABE following the recent birth of his third child.
Dating back to 2012, the 64 year-old Fraccari helped guide and deliver the birth of the WBSC as an interim co-president, alongside softball partner Don Porter. Now, Fraccari will serve as the lone WBSC president for an initial seven-year term that extends to 2021.
The WBSC Congress, which took place over the weekend in the North African city of Hammamet, also elected its first-ever executive board, formalizing a complex merger of baseball’s and softball’s two independent international sport federations — a process that took nearly four-years of talks, legal consultations and planning to arrive at the day where only one official would lead as president.
While in Tunisia, President Singh attended a COPABE (Confederaciòn Panamericana de Béisbol) meeting to discuss developments in the region, following the meeting Singh was tasked with heading a fact finding mission to the English speaking Caribbean countries with an aim to foster further development of the game in those areas.
The GBL also committed to membership in the International Softball Federation with the aim of having the game introduced in schools throughout the country.
President Singh’s report to the GBL board also made specific reference to baseball as a significant tourism product in addition to sport and culture “large groups have indicated interest in playing Recreational Baseball in Guyana as soon as we have constructed our first field”
Baseball and Softball are enjoying a surge in interest and participation and plans are proceeding apace for an extremely busy and productive mini-season during the school holidays in July and August.
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