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Baseball at the Olympics
The popular world sport of baseball was a demonstration sport at the Olympics for the most part of the 20th century, and only became an official Olympic sport in 1992. This was only short lived, as it was dropped from the 2012 Games program.
Trivia
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In 1992, when baseball became an official sport, Cuba won the first gold medal ever awarded.
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Until the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, baseball at the Olympics was restricted to amateurs. In the Games since 2000, professional players were premitted to play.
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Baseball and Softball has been dropped from the program after the 2008 Olympics.
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The best all-time performing Baseball player at the Olympic Games is cuban player Pedro Luis Lazo who won 4 medals (2 of them gold) between 1996–2008. See more on the Greatest Baseball Players at the Olympics.
Related Pages
- Baseball as a demonstration sport at the Olympics.
- See more on the Greatest Baseball Players at the Olympics.
- POLL: should baseball be re-introduced into the Olympic Games program?
- POLL: Which sport should be next included in the Olympic Games?
- more information about the sport of Baseball.
- List of Olympic Sports
