Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.

Baseball first debuted at the Olympic Games at St. Louis 1904 as an unofficial sport before featuring again in a similar guise at Stockholm 1912, Berlin 1936 and in the 1950s, 1960s and 1980s. It finally became an official Olympic sport at Barcelona 1992 as male only event, with Cuba beating Chinese Taipei in the gold medal match.

Baseball continued on the programme through to Beijing 2008 but was not included at London 2012, Rio 2016 or Paris 2024. It returns to the Olympic programme for LA 2028.

BaseballSoftballUK is the national development and performance agency for baseball and softball in the United Kingdom.