Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Softball at the Summer Olympics was on the Olympic programme from 1996 to 2008. Softball was removed from the programme for 2012 and 2016. Efforts are underway to try to get softball on the programme for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Baseball and softball's joint campaign to return to the Olympics in 2020 is awaiting feedback from an IOC board meeting.
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