<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> 2008 </Li> <Li> 2012 </Li> <Li> 2016 </Li> <Li> 2020 </Li> </Ul> <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>

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