Had Olympic baseball continued uninterrupted, then the WBC might never have come along. That said, don't take the return of baseball to the Olympics in 2021 to be a sign of things to come.

An Olympic qualifying tournament for North and South America, postponed from last March, is now expected to be held in early June in Florida, the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) announced ...

This now seems to be baseball’s relationship with the Olympics. If the Olympics are being hosted in a country with a history of baseball (like Japan in 2020 or the U.S in 2028), baseball returns ...

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.

Though baseball’s Olympic roots go as far back as 1900 — when a baseball game was played as part of the 1900 Paris Exposition in conjunction with the 1900 Summer Olympics, also in Paris — it ...

Dive into the fascinating world of baseball's past with our video on the "Catcher's Olympics," a forgotten event from the ...

The Tokyo Olympics will get a boost of familiarity this summer as baseball is back for the first time since 2008. The Olympic baseball tournament has just six teams. Japan, Mexico, and the ...

Baseball, in the most half-cocked fashion possible, is returning to the Olympics in 2020. Rather than featuring the game’s best players, its rosters are likely to include American minor leaguers ...

We’ll now have six teams competing in baseball for the 2021 Olympic games but don’t expect to see too many familiar faces. Players currently on MLB 40-man rosters are ruled ineligible for the ...

That’s what the Olympic baseball tournament is, largely a cross between Double-A ball and Old-Timers Day. If acronyms are essential to the Olympics, DFA is as significant as IOC.