Hawaii national baseball team explained

Hawaii national baseball team
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The Hawaii national baseball team was the national baseball team of the Territory of Hawaii. It represented the territory in international competitions before Hawaii was granted statehood in 1959; Hawaii now competes as part of the United States national team.

Hawaii competed in the third edition of the Amateur World Series in 1940, where it finished fifth.

Hawaii also participated in the 1940 East Asian Games, held in Tokyo as a substitute for the canceled 1940 Summer Olympics. The territory was represented by the Hawaii Asahis amateur team. It lost all three of its games to Japan (4–3), the Philippines (4–2), and Manchukuo (1–0).[1] [2]

Hawaii was represented by the Honolulu Red Sox at the 1955 and 1956 Global World Series, organized by the National Baseball Congress. However, at the 1957 installment of the tournament, the territory was represented by a selection of Hawaiian all-stars.[3]

Competitive Record

Amateur World Series

YearResultPosition
1938Did not enterIBF
1939
1940Single-table tournament5th1257
1941Did not enter
1942
1943
1944FIBA
1945
1947
1948
1950
1951
1952
1953
Total0 Titles1/141257

East Asian Games

Global World Series

Notes and References

  1. Book: Guthrie-Shimizu . Sayuri . Transpacific Field of Dreams: How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War . 2012 . University of North Carolina Press . 9780807882665 . 171 .
  2. Bedingfield . Gary . The 1940 Keio University Baseball Tour of Hawaii . Baseball in Wartime Newsletter . April 2022 . 58 . 13.
  3. News: Some Answers on the Global Series . 27 July 2024 . Honolulu Record . 15 August 1957 . Center for Labor Education & Research, University of Hawaii.