The Netherlands Antilles national baseball team was a national team of the Netherlands Antilles

Netherlands Antilles

The Netherlands Antilles , also referred to informally as the Dutch Antilles, was an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting of two groups of islands in the Lesser Antilles: Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao , in Leeward Antilles just off the Venezuelan coast; and Sint...

 and was controlled by the Netherlands Antillean Baseball Federation. It represented the former nation in senior-level men's international competition. The team is still a member of the Pan American Baseball Confederation

Pan American Baseball Confederation

The Pan American Baseball Confederation , is the governing body of baseball within the Americas.-Members:-Rankings:...

 (Confederación Panamericana de Béisbol in Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

, and abbreviated to "COPABE"), and is ranked 10th among teams from the confederation, and 22nd in the world according to the International Baseball Federation (IBAF).

The Netherlands Antilles have been represented—distinct from the Netherlands

Netherlands national baseball team

The Netherlands national baseball team is the national baseball team of the Netherlands. They are currently the top team in Europe and currently the sixth ranked men's baseball team in the IBAF World Rankings....

—in twelve Baseball World Cups. To date their highest finish is 7th place.