| Country: | Taiwan |
| Dates: | 15 - 23 August |
| Num Teams: | 12 |
| Venues: | 2 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Defending Champion: | Cuba |
| Prev Year: | 2005 |
| Medal Type: | world minor |
| Champion Other: | United States |
| Num Championships: | 4 |
| Second Other: | Cuba |
| Third Other: | Mexico |
| Fourth Other: | Venezuela |
| Games: | 46 |
| Attendance: | 8244 |
| Best Avg Hitter: |  JoMarcos Woods |
| Best Avg: | .696 |
| Most Hr Hitter: |  Guillermo Aviles |
| Most Hr: | 3 |
| Most Sb Runner: | Urving Kemp |
| Most Sb: | 6 |
| Best Era Pitcher: | Elbis Martinez Cory Geisler John Hochstatter |
| Best Era: | 0.00 |
| Most K Pitcher: |  Seung-Jun Baek |
| Most K: | 26 |
The 2009 World Youth Baseball Championship was an international baseball tournament scheduled to start on 15 August 2009. It was the 14th time the World Youth Cup has taken place. Taichung, Taiwan hosted the tournament and 12 nations competed, including defending champions Cuba.
| width=200px bgcolor="#98fb98" | Qualified for the quarter-finals | |
| width=200px bgcolor=pink | Did not qualify for the quarter-finals |
| width=20 | width=150 | Team | width=50 | Games | width=50 | Wins | width=50 | Losses | width=100 | Tiebreaker | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | - | |||||||
| 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1-0 | |||||||
| 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0-1 | |||||||
| 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1-0 | |||||||
| 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0-1 | |||||||
| 6 | 5 | 0 | 5 | - |
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Panama was originally scheduled to participate in Group B of the tournament, but withdrew citing financial concerns. The International Baseball Federation (IBAF) announced that Hong Kong would be their replacements, shortly before the tournament was due to commence.[1]
| width=200px bgcolor="#98fb98" | Qualified for the quarter-finals | |
| width=200px bgcolor=pink | Did not qualify for the quarter-finals |
| width=20 | width=150 | Team | width=50 | Games | width=50 | Wins | width=50 | Losses | width=100 | Tiebreaker | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 5 | 5 | 0 | - | ||||||
| 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | - | |||||||
| 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | - | |||||||
| 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | - | |||||||
| 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | - | |||||||
| 6 | 5 | 0 | 5 | - |
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| Rank | Country | |
|---|---|---|
| United States | ||
| 4th | ||
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| 12th |
The IBAF announced the following awards at the completion of the tournament.[2]
| Pitcher (RHP) | Héctor Mendoza |
|---|---|
| Pitcher (LHP) | Cory Geisler |
| Catcher |  Guy Edmonds |
| First Base | Guillermo Aviles |
| Second Base |  Rougned Odor |
| Third Base | Lin-Jen Chu |
| Short Stop | Francisco Lindor |
| Outfield | Austin Cousino |
 Katsushi Nakamichi | |
| JoMarcos Woods |