Although the apparent reason is that there are too few countries that really develop baseball, it is actually because the increasingly commercialized Olympic Games are not satisfied with the ratings of Olympic baseball games, which affects the willingness of advertisers to provide commercial sponsorship for the Olympic Games. In addition, the United States, a world baseball power, is indifferent to the Olympic baseball game and unwilling to officially open the active major league players to participate in the Olympic Games, which cannot make the Olympic baseball game the highest level in the world; Moreover, the cost of venue construction for baseball games is not low. Usually, the host country of the Olympic Games must build new baseball fields to provide baseball fields for the Olympic Games, and they are often abandoned after the Olympic Games, which brings trouble and financial burden to the host country of the Olympic Games. Therefore, the cancellation of the Olympic baseball game by the International Olympic Committee is not only a retaliatory action against American professional baseball, but also one of the measures taken by the International Olympic Committee to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.
After baseball was officially excluded from the Olympic Games by the International Olympic Committee on July 8, 2005, countries were worried about the future development of baseball in the international arena. However, in recent years, the number of foreign players entering major leagues has increased year by year. In order to make the development of baseball more international, Major League Baseball invited baseball representatives from all countries to gather in Detroit, USA on July 1 1, 2005 to plan a new international baseball game with the International Baseball Association. Representatives of all parties attending this meeting, in addition to Taiwan Province Province represented by Hong Ruihe, acting chairman of Major League Baseball in China, also attended this meeting, including representatives from Australia, Canada, China, Dominica, Italy, South Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Panama, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, South Africa and other countries. The Japanese side did not send representatives to attend because it had not completed the negotiations with the players' union; The representative of Cuba did not attend the meeting for some reason. After extensive discussions in various countries, this conference decided to hold this international competition, and decided to hold it in March 2006, and named the international competition "world baseball classic". The origin of the name of this event is to distinguish it from the biennial baseball World Cup and avoid confusion. Therefore, the mode of Major League Baseball participating in the All-Star Game is also called "Midsummer Classic" and the World Series is also called "Autumn Classic", so the name of this international event is named "world baseball classic". It was originally suggested to use the name of the Super World Cup, but because its name is close to the World Cup baseball championship, its meaning seems to be derogatory and has not been adopted.