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Submitted by cubsnet on Sun, 2007-04-15 21:33.

The Wall Street Journal has a Page One article (Adam Thompson, "Baseball Makes Its Pitch to China," 4/16/2007) on Major League Baseball's attempt to get baseball back in the Olympics for 2016 (and, no doubt, to make a buck or two): Get China interested in the sport.

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The International Olympic Committee voted in 2005 to give the game the boot, just 13 years after baseball's Olympic debut, citing the sport's doping scandals as well as its reluctance to send its top players to the competition in the middle of its season. Next year's Olympics in Beijing will be baseball's Olympic swan song unless someone comes to its rescue.

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