South Korea, the United States and Japan have agreed to organize a Baseball World Cup in 2006.

The agreement for the ground-breaking sporting event came at a meeting of top professional baseball executives from the three countries in Tokyo Friday.

The meeting was attended by Korean Baseball Organization commissioner Park Yong-Oh, U.S. Major League Baseball chief operating officer Bob DuPay, and Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball commissioner Yasuchika Negoro.

The unprecedented, U.S.-proposed Baseball World Cup is envisioned to bring together professional baseball players from 16 countries, including China, Taiwan, Cuba and the Dominican Republic for competitions in the United States in March 2006, a few months before the football World Cup finals in Germany.

The baseball extravaganza would see the top two teams from each of four preliminary groups advance to round robin competition. The top two teams from each of the two second-round groups would then be pitted against each other in the championship stages.