MLB owners' World Cup vote

Major League Baseball officials met with the International Baseball Federateion (IBAF) in Italy this week to sort out the planned professional baseball World Cup. The MLB club owners will be voting on MLB's proposed World Cup:

One of the major issues discussed at the Monday meeting was the naming rights to the term "World Cup of Baseball." Those rights are in the possession of the IBAF, which is already committed to a World Cup next year in the Netherlands from Sept. 3-15. No decision has been made about the official name of the MLB tournament.

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MLB is on target to play its proposed tournament every four years, beginning in 2005.

On that schedule, MLB would avoid conflicts for television air time and sponsorships with the Winter Olympics and soccer's World Cup, which are both also staged in four-year cycles and are scheduled again in 2006.