| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Country |  Cuba |
| Venue | 1 (in 1 host city) |
| Dates | 14 September – 6 October |
| Teams | 7 |
| Defending champions | Cuba |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Cuba(2nd title) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Games played | 84 |
| Awards | |
| MVP | Connie Marrero |
The1940 Amateur World Series was the thirdAmateur World Series (AWS), an international men'samateurbaseball tournament. The tournament was sanctioned by theInternational Baseball Federation (which titled it the Baseball World Cup as of the1988 tournament). The tournament took place, for the second consecutive time, inCuba. It was contested by seven national teams playing twelve games each from September 14 through October 6 inHavana.
Cuba won its second, and second consecutive, Amateur World Series title. The runners-up were, also for the second consecutive year,Nicaragua and theUnited States; though the U.S. had finished in third place in 1939, the 1940 tournament saw a marked improvement as it tied with Nicaragua for the silver medal.
Though only three of the fourteen teams that had been invited to the second Amateur World Series in Havana managed to attend the previous year, many of them participated in the 1940 edition, leading to a robust field of seven teams.
Mexico,Venezuela, andPuerto Rico all made their debuts at the Amateur World Series, as didHawaii (which at the time was a U.S. territory), becoming the first team fromOceania to participate. However, all of those nations had previously participated in regional competitions; Mexico at the1926 Central American and Caribbean Games, Venezuela and Puerto Rico at the1938 Central American and Caribbean Games, and Hawaii at the tri-national tournament held in Paris during the 1937World's Exhibition.
Caribbean (2)
Oceania (1) | North America (3) | South America (1)
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| Havana,Cuba | |
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| Gran Stadium Cervecería Tropical | |
| Capacity:15,000 | |
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | RF | RA | RD | PCT | GB | CUB |  NCA |  USA |  HWI |  VEN |  MEX |  PUR | CUB | NCA | USA | HWI | VEN | MEX | PUR | |
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| 1 | Cuba(H) | 12 | 10 | 2 | 84 | 31 | +53 | .833 | — | 8–5 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 11–1 | 6–0 | 10–4 | 4–5 | 3–2 | 6–5 | 7–1 | 6–2 | 19–3 | |||
| 2 | Nicaragua | 12 | 9 | 3 | 71 | 38 | +33 | .750 | 1 | 5–8 | 5–7 | 8–6 | 5–0 | 9–0 | 13–0 | 5–4 | 1–0 | 1–10 | 8–2 | 4–0 | 7–1 | |||
| 3 | United States | 12 | 9 | 3 | 51 | 20 | +31 | .750 | 1 | 2–1 | 7–5 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 3–2 | 4–2 | 2–3 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 0–3 | 9–1 | 15–0 | |||
| 4 | Hawaii | 12 | 5 | 7 | 51 | 49 | +2 | .417 | 5 | 1–3 | 6–8 | 0–2 | 6–3 | 3–8 | 7–4 | 5–6 | 10–1 | 2–3 | 1–5 | 7–4 | 3–2 | |||
| 5 | Venezuela | 12 | 5 | 7 | 33 | 53 | −20 | .417 | 5 | 1–11 | 0–5 | 0–4 | 3–6 | 6–1 | 3–1 | 1–7 | 2–8 | 3–0 | 5–1 | 6–5 | 3–4 | |||
| 6 | Mexico | 12 | 2 | 10 | 30 | 69 | −39 | .167 | 8 | 0–6 | 0–9 | 2–3 | 8–3 | 1–6 | 4–3 | 2–6 | 0–4 | 1–9 | 4–7 | 5–6 | 6–7 | |||
| 7 | Puerto Rico | 12 | 2 | 10 | 31 | 91 | −60 | .167 | 8 | 4–10 | 0–13 | 2–4 | 4–7 | 1–3 | 3–4 | 3–19 | 1–7 | 0–15 | 2–3 | 4–3 | 2–3 |
Some players of note who took part in the tournament include:
| Pos. | Team | W | L |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Cuba | 10 | 2 |
 | Nicaragua | 9 | 3 |
| United States | 9 | 3 | |
| 4 | Venezuela | 5 | 7 |
| Hawaii | 5 | 7 | |
| 6 | Mexico | 2 | 10 |
| 7 | Puerto Rico | 2 | 10 |
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| Award | Player | Ref. |
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| Most Valuable Player | Conrado Marrero | [1] |
| Position | Player |
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| C | Bill KrywickiCarlos Colás |
| 1B | Virgilio Arteaga |
| 2B | Joe McDonough |
| 3B | David K. Richards |
| SS | Lawrence Kunihisa |
| OF | Héctor Benítez |
| Antonio Ruiz | |
| Jonathan Robinson | |
| P | Stubby Overmire |
| Cliff McClanahan | |
| Conrado Marrero | |
| Tomás Hechevarría | |
| José "Chino" Meléndez | |
| Al Nalua |
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