Past JOH articles: “Baseball at the Olympics”
In the very first issue of the ISOH’s Journal of Olympic History (then still called Citius, Fortius, Altius), Pete Cava gives an overview of the history of baseball in the Olympics up to 1991.
Baseball is the sport with the longest Olympic history without being an actual medal sport, being contested as a demonstration sport in 1912, 1936, 1956, 1964, 1984 and 1988. In addition, the Finnish sport of pesapällo was demonstrated in 1952. In 1992, baseball finally became Olympic, but it will disappear from the programme again after the 2008 games, as was decided by the IOC in 2005.