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.[5] In April 2019 at the first African West One pre-qualifier for the 2020 Olympics, the team defeated Team Nigeria (13–3) and Team Ghana (14–4).[2][6][7][8] It lost in the semi-final in May to Team South Africa, 16–1.[9][6][10]
