Editing 1912 Summer Olympics (section)

===Demonstration sports===
{{Main|Baseball at the 1912 Summer Olympics}}
In the evening of 7 July, demonstrations took place in the Olympic Stadium of sports from the Swedish island of [[Gotland]]. These began at 7:30pm with a demonstration of [[Pärk]], a type of tennis with seven players a side. At the same time, at the other end of the stadium, a type of [[Iceland]]ic wrestling called [[Glima]] was demonstrated.<ref name="off817">[[#official|Official Report (1913)]]: p. 817.</ref> Once those displays had concluded, further demonstrations were made of the Swedish sport [[varpa]], similar to [[quoits]], and [[stångstörtning]], a version of the [[caber toss]].<ref name="off818">[[#official|Official Report (1913)]]: p. 818.</ref><ref name="Yttergren 2018">{{cite journal | last=Yttergren | first=Leif | title=Baseball, glima and Gotlandic sport : An analysis of the demonstration sports in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics | journal=Diagoras: International Academic Journal on Olympic Studies | volume=2 | date=2018-11-16 | pages=103–122 | url=https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1263741&dswid=3997 | access-date=2024-01-27}}</ref> The three disciplines showcased were [[pärk]], [[varpa]] and [[stångstörtning]].<ref name="Yttergren 2018"/>


Baseball was also demonstrated at the Games. A game was played between the [[United States]], the nation where the game was developed, and [[Sweden]], the host nation. The game was held on Monday, 15 July 1912 and started at 10 [[12-hour clock|a.m.]] on the [[Ostermalm Athletic Grounds]] in [[Stockholm]]. The Americans were represented by various members of the American Olympic track and field athletics delegation, while the Swedish team was the [[Vesterås Baseball Club]], which had been formed in 1910 as the first baseball club in Sweden. Four of the Americans played for Sweden, as the Swedish [[pitcher]]s and [[catcher]]s were inexperienced. One Swede eventually relieved Adams and Nelson, the American pitchers.

Six innings were played, with the Americans not batting in the sixth and allowing the Swedes to have six outs in their half of the inning. The game was umpired by [[George Wright (sportsman)|George Wright]], a retired American [[National League (baseball)|National League]] baseball player.<ref name="off824">[[#official|Official Report (1913)]]: p. 824.</ref>