Olympic dream for generation of Australian baseballers hangs in the balance

For thousands of sports stars around the world, the uncertainty of the pandemic has left their Olympic dreams up in the air, with the fate of the Tokyo Games still unclear less than 200 days from when they are supposed to begin.

But for the Australian baseball team, the doubt is particularly tough, with a once-in-24-year opportunity hanging in the balance.

Tokyo loomed as Australia’s first chance to play in an Olympic baseball tournament since snaring a silver medal in 2004, falling heartbreakingly short of the gold at Athens in a narrow loss to…