Baseball’s history as an Olympic sport is a fractured one. Intermittently included as a demonstration sport starting in 1904, baseball didn’t became a medal sport until the Barcelona games in 1992, then was dropped from the Olympic program entirely after South Korea won the gold in Beijing in 2008. Earlier this month, it was announced that baseball and softball would return as medal sports in Tokyo in 2020. For the sport to return to the ultimate international stage in a country that's crazy for it presents Major League Baseball with a tremendous opportunity to raise the international profile of the league and its star players, as well as to expand the reach of the game itself.
Picking best 2020 Olympic baseball squads for the United States, Cuba and more
