Japan, Korea, Cuba and he like. In fact I might even watch the olympics...for once. Jim Caple also argued for retired players to play in the Olympics. But I doubt this would work. Generally speaking, Olympic athletes are either professionals or they are students who are younger than professionals. They are hardly ever older. Softball- yes. Baseball- sadly not. In Womens' softball you have the best players(same for women's soccer). But sadly you can't have it in baseball because it's on during the MLB. And to have college or minor league players- it's not wirth it. It's not really important enough to the IOc to have it. Actually cricket really should be in the Olympics. Like baseball it has a good number of countries that play it worldwide (Aus, NZ, SA, Ind, Pak, Sri Lanka, England, etc) but unlike the baseball they can actually get the best players there in the Olympics. Maybe there's some anti- British bias in the Eurocentric IOC in keeping out a sport played basically exclusively by Britain and it's former colonies. I have to wonder how much of this is the IOC trying to head off the NBAs attempts to pull some of their star power. With the NBA threatening to place an age cap on its players, obviously in an attempt to keep big names/contracts out, and now the IOC has chosen to reframe the issue with baseball as one of pros. Basketball has less international appeal than baseball, and you have to think