Riccardo Fraccari (born 30 May 1949 in Pisa, Italy) is an international sports administrator who is the current president of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC).
Fraccari was elected as president of the IBAF in December 2009,[1] succeeding American Harvey Schiller, and immediately set out to hold merger discussions with the International Softball Federation.
[6] Under Fraccari, the world governing body for baseball also established the first-ever "Europe" team to compete in officially recognized international competitions, setting a historical precedent.
[8] Fraccari has said that FEPCUBE, an organization representing defected Cuban ballplayers, is ineligible to play in WBSC-sponsored events, as it is not recognized by the Baseball Federation of Cuba.
"[9] Fraccari is a retired professor of organic chemistry at the Livorno Technical Institute (Istituto Tecnico Industriale "Galileo Galilei") and also studied law at the University of Pisa.