Olympics: Baseball to add women in bid to reinstate game
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — Baseball will be adding a women's component to its bid to get reinstated for the 2016 Summer Games.
The president of the International Baseball Federation, Harvey Schiller, tells The Associated Press the change will be made in the next few days.
The move comes a few weeks after women's softball rejected baseball's proposal for a joint baseball-softball bid. The two sports are among seven competing for two openings for new sports at the 2016 Olympics. The International Olympic Committee will vote in October on which sports to add.
Schiller says women's baseball is a growing sport. He estimates that between 300,000 and 500,000 women and girls play baseball worldwide. Meanwhile, women's softball has given the IOC an option of adding men's softball.
