Harkness-Lacrosse-RPI

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From what I heard, baseball got the axe because the IOC wanted pro players like in basketball and hockey, but the MLB isn't willing to take a break like the NHL.

And thank God for that!  It would be utterly ridiculous would it be for MLB to take two weeks off in the middl a pennant race for an international tournament. Especially for Sydney in 2000, when the games were in late September.

It kind of works in hockey because the regular seaosn has always been something of an afterthought.

I think it might work to make baseball a winter Olympic sport so that it's in the offseason and the pros can participate like with basketball. Plus, it would mean an end to the WBC. The biggest problem would be infrastructure since it would require the construction of one or more indoor baseball stadiums in each host city.

You want to play Olympic baseball in February indoors. I'm not sure this even merits a response.

Better than not playing at all.

Yeah, we'd miss out on all of those Olympic baseball memories.

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I can't disagree with this:

Davis wants to add one thing: He and his living teammates wish RPI would induct the entire 1948 team into the school's athletic Hall of Fame. Maybe then future generations can tell the story of RPI's trip to the Olympics as well as he can.

Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/sports/article/When-RPI-ruled-lacrosse-3703780.php#ixzz20czZQXlG

How many NCAA Div I teams win Olympic Gold?

American college crews won every Olympic eight-oar with cox gold from 1920 through 1956 (three for Cal, two Yale, one each Navy and Washington).

Then perhaps the question should have been how many D-III schools have won Olympic Gold medals? (I realize that there were no NCAA divisions in 1948.) :-)