Sadly, Singapore had to be the site of baseball’s removal from the Olympics:
SINGAPORE – Baseball and softball were tossed out of the Olympic program for the 2012 London Games – the first sports cut from the Summer Games in 69 years. The International Olympic Committee then rejected the five sports wanting to get in.
I understand cutting sports for other sports. I wrote last month that baseball was likely to fall out in favour of rugby, and indeed, as far as world popularity is concerned, rugby might even be a better choice, what with the Rugby World Cup being apparently the third-most watched sporting event in the world and all (although I need a more accurate source for that stat). But to cut two sports just for cutting’s sake without replacing them seems ridiculous.