1988 Baseball World Cup

1988 Baseball World Cup
Tournament details
CountryItaly
Dates23 August – 7 September
Teams12
Final positions
Champions Cuba (19th title)
Runner-up United States
Third place Chinese Taipei
Fourth place Japan
Tournament statistics
Games played70
← 1986
1990 →

The 1988 Baseball World Cup (BWC) was the 30th international Men's amateur baseball tournament. The tournament was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation, which titled it the Amateur World Series from the 1938 tournament through the 1986 AWS. The tournament took place, for the second time, in Italy, from August 23 to September 7, and was won by Cuba – its 19th overall victory (their first under the BWC name).

There were 12 participating countries.

The next nine competitions were also held as the BWC tournament, then was replaced in 2015 by the quadrennial WBSC Premier12.