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 and women'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.

The first-ever international baseball event was a series of exhibition games that took place during the 1904 Summer Olympic Games in St. Louis, MO. (USA). The exhibition proved so successful that it was given an encore at the 1912 Summer Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden.

Premier is a title for the head of government in some countries and states.

In many nations, "premier" is used interchangeably with "prime minister". In the People's Republic of China, "premier" is more common, but "prime minister" is still used (see Premier of the People's Republic of China).

In four of the British overseas territories (Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and the British Virgin Islands), the elected heads of government are styled as "Premier". In other overseas territories the equivalent post is styled as Chief Minister.

"Premier" is also the title of the heads of government in sub-national entities, such as the provinces and territories of Canada, states of the Commonwealth of Australia, provinces of South Africa, the island of Nevis within the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, and the nation of Niue. In some of these cases, the formal title remains "Prime Minister" but "Premier" is used to avoid confusion with the national leader. In these cases, care should be taken not to confuse the title of "premier" with "prime minister". In these countries, terms such as "Federal Premier", "National Premier", or "Premier of the Dominion" were sometimes used to refer to prime ministers, although these are now obsolete. In Canadian French, the equivalent of the English word "premier" is "premier ministre", which is also the word used for "prime minister".

Cecil Charles Cole Case, known as Box Case, born at Frome, Somerset on 7 September 1895 and died at Keyford, Frome, Somerset on 11 November 1969, played first-class cricket for Somerset as an amateur batsman between 1925 and 1935.

Case was a right-handed middle-order batsman whose batting technique, in one account, was "limited and effective". He also kept wicket very occasionally in the period at the end of the 1920s and into the 1930s when regular Somerset wicketkeeper Wally Luckes was ill. Although the Somerset side in Case's time often contained amateur players who appeared in relatively few matches, Case was virtually a regular, appearing in 255 matches for the county in 11 seasons, plus two for the Gentlemen in Gentlemen v Players games in 1931 and 1934.

Case was educated at King's School, Bruton. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Third Battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment and served with the regiment throughout the First World War. In October 1918, the London Gazette reported he had been promoted to captain the previous December, but this notice was rescinded five days later. By 1919, he was on the reserve officer list. He left the army on 1 April 1920.