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Originally Posted by thomasthomas
My, how the times have changed. Baseball was cancelled at the Olympics because it didn't attract enough professional players. It wasn't that long ago that pros weren't allowed to compete in any Olympics event!
But I can understand, baseball isn't really a global sport, like others have said. But I do believe it's a joke that PING PONG is an Olympic event and baseball isn't!
Why not add snooker or 9-ball or something like that to the Olympics?
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I agree on the "professional" part. Just kind of funny.
The reason table tennis holds over baseball is more of a convienence thing. Take an indoor location and set up a table, and you're set for table tennis.
Baseball needs a field created for it, and since it's the Olympics, it has to be a field that's immaculate. Most foreign countries don't have "olympic quality" baseball fields, so renovations have to be done to an existing field, or in some cases, fields have to be completely created from scratch.
It's just a pain in the butt to have to go through for a sport that isn't embraced by a large percentage of the world. It's only been an "official" olympic sport for 4 olympic games. They tried, it failed.