Baseball at the 1936 Summer Olympics

Baseball was again a demonstration sport at the 1936 Summer Olympics after a 24 year absence. Both of the teams that played in Berlin were from the United States. The exhibition game was played on 12 August 1936 in front of 90,000 spectators in Berlin's Olympic Stadium. The two teams were named the "World Champions" and the "U. S. Olympics". The World Champions won, 6-5. Leslie Mann, who had pushed strongly for inclusion of baseball as an Olympic... More

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1936 Summer Olympics

The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event that was held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona, Spain on 26 April 1931, at the 29th IOC Session in Barcelona (two years before the Nazis...

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