2013 World Baseball Classic Adds Qualifying Round, 12 Nations

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The World Baseball Classic will add a qualifying round and 12 countries to the 2013 tournament.

The 16-team qualifying round will feature the four nations that didn’t win a game in the 2009 edition plus the dozen new entries including Israel, Spain, Brazil and the Czech Republic, the tournament’s organizers said today in an e-mailed release.