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Whether those games take place at the first- and second-round sites or at the region sites is still undecided.
Members of the committee fan out to the first- and second-round sites every year as tournament representatives.
SAN DIEGO — Because the World Baseball Classic's two second-round sites are on American soil, their games are quickly demonstrating how this tournament exists far less for the United States than for certain ingredients of its melting pot.
It had its own floors made and shipped to four of the eight first-round sites.
Next year, Bleymaier said, all of the first-round sites will have the new floors.
The other two first-round sites are Phoenix, where Canada, Mexico, South Africa and the United States will play March 7 to 10, and Tokyo, where China, Taipei, Japan and South Korea will play March 3 to 5.
The Times' Pete Thamel will be on the scene, and other writers will check in from each of the other first-round sites.
The first-round sites for the United States, for example, will take the team coast to coast in eight days: Friday in Santa Clara, Calif.
The Tigers board their flight to their first-round site in Columbus, Ohio.
