LAUSANNE, Switzerland Baseball made its pitch for reinstatement in the Olympics on Friday, one of the seven sports fighting for two spots on the program for the 2016 Summer Games. A team of six, led by International Baseball Federation president Harvey Schiller and featuring Detroit Tigers center fielder Curtis Granderson, spent an hour putting their case to an IOC panel. Softball, golf, karate, rugby, roller sports and squash also made hour-long, closed-door presentations to the IOC program commission. Baseball, softball make case for 2016 Olympics - Yahoo! News I don't understand Baseball/Softball being dropped to begin with. One of the criteria mentioned in the article was that they wanted to make sure that the sport had a world wide audience and appealed to young people. Baseball's huge in the US, Latin America, the Far East and is gaining popularity in the Middle East.....barring Europe most of the World plays baseball.
Yeah, Europe's the downside.....I guess it's to boring for a lot of the younger generation to. See what you can do RB to get it going over there.:icon_cheesygrin:
