<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Ul> <Li> Medalists </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> Medalists </Li> </Ul> <P> Baseball at the Summer Olympics unofficially debuted at the 1904 Summer Games, and became an official Olympic sport at the 1992 Summer Olympics . The event was last played in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing with South Korea taking the gold . In 2016 it was confirmed that Baseball would return for the 2020 games in Tokyo . Olympic baseball is governed by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF). </P> <P> Although little was recorded, Olympic baseball first appeared at the 1904 St. Louis games . Eight years later in 1912 in Stockholm, a United States team played against host Sweden, winning 13--3 . Baseball was also played at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, the American team beating the French team (the local Ranelagh Club) 5--0 in a four inning exhibition game . In 1936 in Berlin, two United States teams played each other before approximately 90,000--100,000 spectators at the Reichsportsfeld . The 1952 Helsinki event was a modified form of the sport, Finnish baseball, played by two Finnish teams . Australia played a one - game exhibition against the United States in 1956 Melbourne and Japan did the same in 1964 in Tokyo . With a crowd of nearly 114,000 spectators, this game at the Melbourne Cricket Ground held the record for the highest attended exhibition baseball game ever until a 2008 American game in Los Angeles . </P>

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