World baseball/softball body selects 1st president

HAMMAMET, Tunisia - Riccardo Fraccari (front C), head of the International Baseball Federation (IBAF), is selected as the first president of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), a joint organization set up last year by the IBAF and the International Softball Federation aiming to reinstate both sport events in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, in Hammamet, Tunisia, on May 10, 2014.

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