Baseball at the 1967 Pan American Games

Baseball at the 1967 Pan American Games was contested between teams representing Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the United States. The 1967 edition was the fifth Pan American Games, and was hosted by Winnipeg.

Baseball at the V Pan American Games
Venue	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Competitors	5 teams
Medalists
United States    Cuba    Puerto Rico
«1963 1971»

Game results

The competition consisted of an initial round-robin phase, with each team facing every other team twice.^[1] Thus, each team played eight games in the round-robin phase. The top two teams then met in a best-of-three series to determine the champion.^[1]

Round-robin phase

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Ref.	Standings
July 24	Mexico	3–1	Canada	^[2]	CUB (1–0), MEX (1–0), PUR (0–0), USA (0–1), CAN (0–1)
	Cuba	4–3	United States
July 25	Canada	3–2	Puerto Rico	^[3]	CUB (1–0), PUR (1–0), MEX (1–1), USA (1–1), CAN (0–2)
	United States	4–1	Mexico
July 26	Cuba	4–1	Mexico	^[4]	CUB (2–0), USA (2–1), PUR (1–1), MEX (1–2), CAN (0–2)
	United States	8–3	Puerto Rico
July 27	United States	14–10	Canada	^[5]	CUB (3–0), USA (3–1), PUR (1–2), MEX (1–2), CAN (0–3)
	Cuba	3–0	Puerto Rico
July 28	Cuba	6–4	Canada	^[6]	CUB (4–0), USA (3–1), PUR (2–2), MEX (1–3), CAN (0–4)
	Puerto Rico	9–5	Mexico
July 29	Cuba	9–2	United States	^[7]	CUB (5–0), USA (3–2), PUR (2–2), MEX (2–3), CAN (0–5)
	Mexico	7–3	Canada
July 30	Puerto Rico	5–2	Canada	^[8]	CUB (5–0), USA (4–2), PUR (3–2), MEX (2–4), CAN (0–6)
	United States	6–3	Mexico
July 31	Cuba	6–5 (10)	Mexico	^[9]	CUB (6–0), USA (5–2), PUR (3–3), MEX (2–5), CAN (0–6)
	United States	7–3	Puerto Rico
August 1	United States	14–2	Canada	^[10]	CUB (7–0), USA (6–2), PUR (3–4), MEX (2–5), CAN (0–7)
	Cuba	6–5	Puerto Rico
August 2	Canada	10–9	Cuba	^[11]	CUB (7–1), USA (6–2), PUR (4–4), MEX (2–6), CAN (1–7)
	Puerto Rico	7–6	Mexico

  Later ruled a forfeit win for Puerto Rico due to the Canadian team using former professional baseball players.^[12]
  This was the first international loss for Cuba in 12 years.^[13]

Championship series

Format: best of three

Date	Winner	Score	Loser	Ref.	Series
August 3	United States	8–3	Cuba	^[14]	USA (1–0), CUB (0–1)
August 4	Cuba	7–5	United States	^[15]	USA (1–1), CUB (1–1)
August 5	United States	2–1	Cuba	^[16]	USA (2–1), CUB (1–2)

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	1	0	0	1
2	Cuba	0	1	0	1
3	Puerto Rico	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		1	1	1	3

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	United States Ray Blosse Daniel Carlson John Curtis Barry Debolt Dennis Lamb Jack Kraus Mike Lisetski Mark Marquess Tim Plodinec Joe Sadelfield Kenneth Smith Steve Sogge Jim Spencer Paul Splittorff Kenneth Szotkiewicz George Greer Taylor Toomey William Wright	Cuba Manuel Alarcón Rigoberto Betancourt Pedro Chávez Miguel Cuevas Antonio Gonzalez Urbano Gonzalez Ramon Hechevarria Félix Isasi Antonio Jiménez Fermín Laffita Ricardo Lazo Elpidio Mancebo Lazaro Perez Gaspar Pérez Felix Rosa Felipe Sarduy Alfredo Street Jesus Torriente Roberto Valdes	Puerto Rico Javier Andino Anibal Baerga Jose Baez Luis Camacho Angel Davila Heriberto Feliciano Samuel Garcia Julio Maysonet Luis Medina Francisco Mercado Ramon Nieves Ramon Ortiz Pedro Pacheco Milton Ramirez Jose Ramos Carlos Rodriguez Antonio Rodriguez Raul Vives

Sources

• Olderr, Steven (2003). The Pan American Games: A Statistical History, 1951-1999, bilingual edition. McFarland & Company. ISBN 9780786443369.

References

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