{"id":517,"date":"2008-07-21T20:36:36","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T19:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=517"},"modified":"2009-09-26T11:55:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T10:55:04","slug":"ibaf-olympic-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"IBAF Olympic update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from the recent comments by MLB and the IBAF about the sport&#8217;s Olympic future, as discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=509\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a> last week, the president of the IBAF, Harvey Schiller, has issued an &#8216;update&#8217; message to all member federations.\u00c2\u00a0 The British Baseball Federation has published this on their website and you can view it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishbaseball.org\/gen_insert.php?from_level3=Articles&amp;db_story=2618&amp;this_page=baseballnews&amp;back=Current++News\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t contain a great deal of new information, although it&#8217;s good to learn that tickets for the baseball games at the Beijing Olympics sold out &#8220;almost immediately&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>When you weigh up baseball&#8217;s case against some other Olympic sports in terms of global interest and participation, it&#8217;s hard not to feel slightly bitter about the way that it has been kicked to the curb.\u00c2\u00a0 Baseball and softball have a strong argument for reinstatement (if there aren&#8217;t interior motives at work in the IOC over the issue) and we can only hope that the efforts by all concerned will be rewarded in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from the recent comments by MLB and the IBAF about the sport&#8217;s Olympic future, as discussed here last week, the president of the IBAF, Harvey Schiller, has issued an &#8216;update&#8217; message to all member federations.\u00c2\u00a0 The British Baseball Federation has published this on their website and you can view it here.\u00c2\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-baseball-2","tag-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4633,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/4633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}