[1] Twelve years later, in 1912, in Stockholm, a United States team played against host Sweden, winning 13–3.

Australia played a one-game exhibition against the United States in 1956 Melbourne and Japan did the same in 1964 in Tokyo.

[3] Leslie Mann, a former MLB player and coach of the United States national team, was an early advocate of bringing baseball to the Olympics.

[4] Brundage was quoted as saying, "I suspect that if a professional baseball player discovered one day that he could make more money by going back home and laying bricks for a living, he'd go back home and lay bricks.

"[5] After a twenty-year hiatus, Olympic baseball (labelled an exhibition sport/event by the IOC) returned but with tournament formatting (1984 Los Angeles).

As a result, the Americans and other nations where professional baseball is developed relied on collegiate players, while Cubans used their most experienced veterans, who technically were considered amateurs as they nominally held other jobs, but in fact trained full-time.

The IOC cited the absence of the best players as the main reason for baseball being dropped from the Olympic program.

The two slots left available by the IOC's elimination were subsequently filled by golf and rugby sevens in 2016.

In the stands during the 2008 bronze medal game between the U.S. and Japan, IOC head Jacques Rogge was interviewed by MLB.com's Mark Newman and cited various criteria for baseball to earn its way back in: To be on the Olympic program is an issue where you need universality as much as possible.

[13]It was officially decided in August 2009 at the IOC Board meeting in Berlin that baseball would also not be included in the 2016 Summer Olympics.

[14] On April 1, 2011, the IBAF and the International Softball Federation announced they were preparing a joint proposal to revive play of both sports at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

[17][18] A second bid for baseball-softball to be included as an event in 2020 was shortlisted by the Tokyo Organizing Committee on June 22, 2015.

[19] On August 3, 2016, during the 129th IOC Session in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the IOC approved the Tokyo Organizing Committee's final shortlist of five sports, which included baseball, to be included in the program during the 2020 Summer Olympics.