Honkbalweek Haarlem Logo. (Courtesy of Honkbalweek Haarlem)
Team USA will attend the 2024 Honkbalweek Haarlem tournament, which will be held from July 12 to 19, 2024, in Haarlem, Netherlands, at Pim Mulier Stadion.
The USA Baseball Collegiate National Team will not represent the United States at the 2024 Honkbalweek Haarlem event.
The United States will represent the NJCAA All-Star Team at the event. The NJCAA Baseball All-Star Team roster for the Honkbalweek Haarlem tournament will be announced during the next few weeks of the 2024 collegiate regular season.
World Baseball Softball Confederation rankings will be in effect for Team USA for the 2024 Honkbalweek Haarlem tournament.
USA is ranked No. 3 in the World Baseball Rankings from the WBSC. The other countries participating in the Honkbalweek Haarlem event are the host nation Netherlands at No. 7, Chinese Taipei at No. 5, Italy at No. 14, Spain at No. 22, and Japan at No. 1.
College of Central Florida head coach Marty Smith will be the head coach for the NJCAA Baseball All-Star team.
The NJCAA All-Star Team participated in the 2010 Honkbalweek Haarlem event and finished in fourth place, losing to Japan in the bronze medal game. The Team was coached by Jeff Willis, the current president of the NJCAA Baseball Coaches Association.
The Honkbalweek Haarlem event committee will discuss in the next few months if the event will be nine innings for all games. The tournament was seven innings in 2022.
The Semifinals will be on July 18 at 9:30 a.m. EST and 1:30 p.m. EST. The 5th-6th place game will be on July 18 at 5:30 a.m. EST. The bronze medal game will be on July 19 at 8 a.m. EST, followed by the Old Stars Game at 10:30 a.m. EST. The gold medal game will start at 1:30 p.m. EST on July 19.
Peter Herkemij is the tournament director for the Honkbalweek Haarlem event.
The Honkbalweek Haarlem tournament will calculate towards the World Baseball Rankings initiated by the World Baseball Softball Confederation.
The Honkbalweek Haarlem event is held every two years during the international baseball calendar cycle.
The Kingdom of Netherlands has won five gold medals at the Honkbal Haarlem Week event.
The Kingdom of Netherlands beat Curacao 6-1 in the gold medal game during the 2022 tournament.
The USA Baseball Collegiate National Team has won five gold medals at the Honkbalweek Haarlem tournament.
The club teams and non-federation teams that have participated in the Honkbal Haarlem Week event are the Reno Astros in 2004, the Grand Rapid Sullivans in 1963, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1982, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996 and 1998, the Pac-10 Conference All-Stars in 1990, the University of Iowa in 1984, Washington State University in 1984, the University of Miami in 1980 and 1982, the Mitsubishi Japan Industrial Team in 1980, UCLA in 1980, United States Air Forces in Europe in 1971, 1974, and 1976, the University of Arizona in 1974 and 1976, the Alaska Goldpanners in 1972, the California Stags in 1966, 1969, and 1971, Detroit ITM in 1971, the Berlin Bears from Germany in 1969, the Augsburg Bayonets in 1966, the England Spartans in 1963, and the French Woods in 1963.
