Pesäpallo at the 1952 Summer Olympics Demonstration sport
Games played	1
Date	July 31, 1952
Venue	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
City	Helsinki,Finland
Baseball at the Summer Olympics
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Pesäpallo, the Finnish variant ofbaseball, was played as ademonstration sport at the1952 Summer Olympics atHelsinki Olympic Stadium inHelsinki,Finland.^[1]

The ceremonial first feed, or pitch, was thrown at 18:00 on 31 July byLauri Pihkala, who had created the sport. The teams playing were theFinnish Baseball Federation and theFinnish Workers' Sports Federation. In a match with a shortened schedule, the Finnish Baseball Federation won, 8–4.

• Cava, Pete (Summer 1992)."Baseball in the Olympics".Citius, Altius, Fortius.1 (1):7–15.
• Official ReportArchived 11 April 2008 at theWayback Machine. XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952.
• Bill Mallon, Jeroen Heijmans (2011).Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement. Scarecrow Press. p. 297.ISBN 9780810875227.

• Events at the 1952 Summer Olympics
• Baseball at the Summer Olympics
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• Pesäpallo competitions
• Discontinued sports at the Summer Olympics
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• Men's events at the 1952 Summer Olympics

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