Aldo Notariwas the president of the International Baseball Federation from 1993 to 2006... (wikipedia)
Maybe this time, if we get another vote, we'll be 10 to 15 votes ahead. I don't think this is impossible.
But we're only talking about the North American league. Japan sent its best players to Athens,
It is necessary that the best players be sent to Beijing so that there is high-quality baseball.
I won't enter into a problem with the national committee. The position of Roldan is very good and very clear.
We are trying to find ways to return to the Olympic Games as quickly as possible,
We're trying to keep baseball within the Olympics after the 2008 Games, and this decision by the Treasury Department of the United States does not help us at all.
Who wins by having two sports out in London? The fact that two spots remain open justifies a repeat of the vote. If we had lost by 20 votes or new sports came in, then we wouldn't be trying this.
We will do all we can. For us, being an Olympic sport is very, very important. Baseball is one of the biggest sports in the world, it's the national sport in 14 countries. What other sport can say that, apart from soccer?
We have a duty to get back in the Olympics.
We have done everything we possibly can. I always had the feeling of being able to get a good result.
The result was very close in both cases, with a difference of only one or two votes. I think we and softball deserve another chance.
As for doping, it's a minority. And we are working to address that, too.