The 1956 European Baseball Championship was held in Rome, Italy and was won by the Netherlands. Belgium finished as runner-up.
| Pos. | width=150px | Teams | width=50px | width=50px | width=50px | width=50px | width=50px | width=50px | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | align=left | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 23 | 8 | |||||||
| 2 | align=left | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 27 | 8 | |||||||
| 3 | align=left | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 24 | |||||||
| 4 | align=left | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 30 | |||||||
| 5 | align=left | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 25 |
| BEL | ITA | ESP | FRG | |
| NED | 1-0 | 13-2 | 6-4 | 3–2 |
| BEL | 3-2 | 14-3 | 10–2 | |
| ITA | 6-5 | 7–3 | ||
| ESP | 5–4 | |||