2023 MWBL CHRISTMAS CLASSIC HOME RUN DERBY
Matanzas Cuba – 12/25/2023
Despite some spotty pop-up thunderstorms, the Mid-West Baseball League held its 20th Annual Christmas Classic again this year on a 
semi-wet and cold evening in Matanzas Cuba tonight. A 72-degree day turned a little cooler with the winds blowing in at 7 MPH, which was not the perfect setting for the Mid-West Baseball League annual event. Street vendors were out in droves selling hats, T-shirts, sunglasses, and anything they could make a buck on from Americans & other foreign tourists. Twelve MWBL players & families came together with masks on for a jolly old time of fun, very little sun, but yet plenty of Home Runs.
2023 CHRISTMAS CLASSIC PARTICIPANTS ANNOUNCED
The 2023 Christmas Classic will be held on Christmas night – December 25th, 2023 (results posted on 12/26/23 @ or about Noon ET) in Matanzas, Cuba in the Stadium – Victoria de Girón.
How does the MWBL handle the Christmas Classic Home Run Derby? This is an idea that came from a league (BUNT), that the Commissioner checks out from time to time. Dave Snyderman one of the members produced the idea a few years ago and it has been refined somewhat as they went along. The MWBL refined the idea a little more and adopted the concept for the Christmas Classic Home Run Derby.
Representing the American & National League teams they finished 2023 with, will be the following twelve (12), players.
Since 2017 – No Mid-West Baseball League Franchise will have more than one representative.
All representatives will be for the team they finished the 2023 MWBL Season with.
| AMERICAN LEAGUE – 2023 MWBL CHRISTMAS CLASSIC PARTICIPANTS | |||||
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| Aaron Judge | Kyle Schwarber | Cal Raleigh | Yordan Alvarez | Nick Plummer | Vladimir Guerrero Jr. |
| Hollywood | Detroit | Cincinnati | Chicago | Southbend | Fremont |
| NATIONAL LEAGUE – 2023 MWBL CHRISTMAS CLASSIC PARTICIPANTS | |||||
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| Austin Riley | Mookie Betts | Gleyber Torres | Matt Olson | Nolan Arenado | Freddie Freeman |
| Valdosta | Selkirk | Long Beach | Baltimore | Harsens Island | Tempe |