by www.baseballeurope.com
Lobbying for baseball’s reinstatement into the Olympic Games has come to its home straight. International federations have put a terrific effort into this mission, and there are still a few more meetings to come that will surely define our sport’s future. Baseball society is well aware of all these extraordinary work that Dr. Harvey Schiller and his team have been doing on the international field.
As Dr. Schiller ensured all of us about the fact that baseball is more than ready to answer any questions and we do meet each and every potential request that could still arise on the IOC side, now it’s our turn. National federations must approach their IOC members and do their best to convince them about a positive voting in Copenhagen this October.
Understanding the importance of this targeted work, Hungarian Federation has already completed its mission number one. So I proudly announce, that Dr. Pal Schmitt one of the two IOC members of Hungary, acting as the Protocol Chief of IOC has already ensured us about his definite support on the occasion of our last meeting on the 3rd of June.
This job has certainly been pushed by both IBAF and CEB leadership during the past years. Our CEB President Mr. Martin Miller has also emphasized this necessity anytime he had the chance. With this release I had a two-fold intention: first to share good news from Hungary, but on the other hand I also intended to encourage all national federations to make good use of the coming months.