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Japan out of worlds

DEFENDING champion Japan has pulled out of the 2013 World Baseball Classic over a revenue-sharing row, the country's Professional Baseball Players Association said yesterday. Japan won the inaugural 2006 edition and won the last championship in 2009. But Japanese players had warned they would not take part in the next tournament unless the two-time champion was guaranteed a bigger slice of revenue from the event.



 

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