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Baseball at the 1956 Summer Olympics was a demonstration sport at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Though it was nominally the "foreign" demonstration sport of that Olympiad, Australia had a long history of baseball dating back to at least 1889.
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The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, which were held in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 1956.
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22 de jun. de 2021 · Baseball was a demonstration sport at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and featured a single game. The game was held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on December 1, 1956. The game began at 12:30 PM before the track and field events, and as a result, an estimated crowd of 114,000 was on hand by the end of the game.
In 1956 a single exhibition game was played between an Australian team and a United States’ team made up of military personnel from the Far East. The US team played the Olympic demonstration as part of a tour of Australia running from 25 November to 18 December.
Baseball was held as an exhibition or demonstration sport at seven Olympic Games before joining the program as an official medal sport: Paris 1900, Stockholm 1912, Berlin 1936, Melbourne 1956, Tokyo 1964, Los Angeles 1984, and Seoul 1988. At Melbourne 1956, a baseball game was staged in the Olympic stadium just before a track and field session.
