Team USA's favorite status shows parity on interntaional baseball scene American teams traditionally perform better without Major Leaguers on roster Justin Smoak has emerged as the team's star, with nine home runs By John Manuel, Baseball America Rangers prospect Justin Smoak's nine home runs in the World Cup are a Team USA record. There's a World Cup going on? Really? It's hard to tell in the United States these days, but the world's largest international baseball tournament is winding down in Europe, and the U.S. is the leader in the clubhouse. The 2009 World Cup has spanned seven nations -- they played first-round games in baseball hotbeds such as Croatia, the Czech Republic and Sweden -- and nearly three weeks. It's not quite the soccer World Cup, and it's not even the World Baseball Classic, but it is a 22-nation event... [read full story]
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