The International Baseball Federation (Spanish: Federación Internacional de Béisbol) is the worldwide governing body recognized by the International Olympic Committee as overseeing, deciding and executing the policy of the bat-and-ball sport of baseball at the international level. One of its principal responsibilities is to organize, standardize and sanction international competitions among its 118 national member federations through its various tournaments to determine a world champion and calculate world rankings for both men's baseball. The IBAF is the lone entity that can assign the title of "world champion" to any baseball team delegated to represent a nation. Its headquarters are located in Lausanne, Switzerland--the Olympic Capital.
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