Burkina Faso national baseball team

The Burkina Faso national baseball team also known as The Upright Men,[2] is a baseball team which represents Burkina Faso in international baseball competitions.

Baseball was introduced in Burkina Faso in the late 1990s.

[3] In 2016, a group of ten players from the national team went to Japan to train.

[4] Seventeen national baseball teams in Africa were divided into four zones for the 2020 Olympics qualifiers, and Burkina Faso competed in Zone West 1 against Team Ghana, Team Nigeria, Team Tunisia, and Team Cote d’Ivoire.

[2][6][7][8] It lost in the semi-final in May to Team South Africa, 16–1.