Baseball at the Summer Olympics facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Baseball at the Summer Olympics
Governing body	WBSC
Events	1 (men)
Games
1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 Note: demonstration or exhibition sport years indicated in italics
Medalists

Baseball at the Summer Olympics unofficially debuted at the 1904 Summer Olympics and became an official Olympic sport at the 1992 Summer Olympics. The event was last played in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, with South Korea taking the gold; the sport was dropped from the Summer Olympic program but will be revived as part of the program for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Olympic baseball is governed by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC).

See also

In Spanish: Béisbol en los Juegos Olímpicos para niños