The latest in International Baseball News:

In Japan’s “Spring Koshien”, Urawa Gakuin won the tournament. The “Spring Koshien”, unlike the “Summer Koshien”, is a invitational tournament and isn’t as prestigious, but is still shown on television and is a source of pride to the participants.

It’s still very early in the NPB season, but here’s how the standings there look right now:

In Korea, the standings so far look like this (taken from MyKBO):

I cannot find CPBL standings as of right now- if you know where I can find them, let me know.

Meanwhile, in Europe, Leon Boyd of the Dutch National Team (one of the very few “passport players” on the Kingdom of the Netherlands- his mother is Dutch) has signed with Correndon Kinheim.

And that will be it for today, but come back tomorrow for more Continuum Global News.

In the days and weeks ahead, this feature will be more fleshed-out and substantial, so please be patient as I work to make this one of the spots to go to for international baseball news.