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THE SOUTHERN CROSS PITCH
The Australian Baseball Task Force Newsletter
Issue 8 – October 2011

: "They can only get better, so if we can get everyone back at the right time, Australian baseball can only move forward from here"; — Australian manager Jon Deeble following the 2011 Baseball World Cup

News and announcements

We have our first Featured List for the task force: List of Major League Baseball players from Australia. It joins the other featured content of the task force Bill Ponsford, and is one of two such lists of MLB players by origin to have achieved featured status (the other being Puerto Rico).
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Featured content

The following articles have been promoted past start-class, or included in the task force's scrutiny, since the last edition:

Featured List status:

List of Major League Baseball players from Australia

News from the diamond

2011 Baseball World Cup:

Australia equalled their best World Cup finish from two years ago, claiming 5th place after defeating

South Korea in their final game.

Netherlands defeated

Cuba in the final to be crowned World Champions for the first time, leaving Cuba in 2nd for the third straight tournament.

Canada and

United States shared 3rd place after their final was washed out.

2011 Asia Series:

One of the

Perth Heat's opponents for the restarted Asia Series in November has been decided:

Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions are the 2011 CPBL champions, having defeated the Lamigo Monkeys 4 games to 1. It will be the third time they have qualified for the Asia Series, the most times a team has qualified. (The

China Stars have appeared 3 times as well, but were an All-Star team that that played in place of the CBL champions for the first 3 years.)

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