With few baseball facilities in Europe, cricket grounds are probably the closest thing.
Archey said no teams had been selected to play in Europe. In 2004, the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Devil Rays opened the season with two games in Japan.
Baseball's first World Cup-style tournament, a 16-nation event organized by Major League Baseball and its players' association, is to be played next year in March in the US, Asia and Latin America.



