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Baseball at the Summer Olympics unofficially debuted at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, [1] and was first contested as a demonstration sport at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. It became an official Olympic sport at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, then was played at each Olympiad through the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
In 1992, the first official Olympic baseball tournament was won by the Cuban team. Cuba had boycotted the 1984 and 1988 Olympics, missing the previous exhibition baseball tournaments, but entered in 1992 as the favorite, having won the past 12 world championships and with a 62–1 record in international competitions since 1986. [5] The Cubans ...
Baseball was featured at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, for the first time since the 2008 Summer Olympics. [1] Six national teams competed in the tournament: Israel, Japan (host), Mexico, South Korea, the United States, and the Dominican Republic.
It was contested in every Olympics from 1992-2008 but, in 2005, the International Olympic Committee voted to drop baseball and softball from the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
The IOC votes to include baseball, softball, flag football, cricket, squash and lacrosse as official sports for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
Baseball was dropped after the 2008 Games, returned in 2021 in Japan, then was left out this year in Paris. The sport returns for the Los Angeles Games four years from now. At the Tokyo Olympics, Major League Baseball only allowed players not on 40-man rosters to play — and teams additionally blocked many eligible prospects.
At the Tokyo Olympics, Major League Baseball only allowed players not on 40-man rosters to play — and teams additionally blocked many eligible prospects. The potential health risk is real, a ...
Summer Olympics World Series Team Ref. Orlando Hernández Cuba: Starting pitcher 1992 Barcelona: 1998: New York Yankees [1] [2] 1999: New York Yankees: 2000: New York Yankees: 2005: Chicago White Sox: José Contreras Cuba: Starting pitcher 1996 Atlanta: 2005: Chicago White Sox [1] [3] Pat Borders United States: Catcher 2000 Sydney: 1992 ...