Olympics strike out Latin fans

Posted on: July 31st, 2005
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Summer is supposed to be a great time of year for baseball. But for millions of baseball fans in Latin America, this is the summer of their discontent.

The decision by the International Olympic Committee to eliminate baseball from the 2012 Olympic Games in London has hit Latin American baseball fans like a 100-mph fastball to the head.

We know that baseball fans in the U.S. are understandably disappointed by the decision to dump the national pastime. Many U.S. fans consider the ouster of baseball and softball - the first sports to get the Olympic boot since polo got yanked after the 1936 Olympics - as a blatant act of anti-Americanism.

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