Baseball at the 1981 World Games

The World Games I baseball competition was held on July 27–30, 1981, at San Jose Municipal Stadium in San Jose, California. The 1981 Games were the first World Games, an international quadrennial multi-sport event, and were held in California's Santa Clara Valley. Teams from the United States, Australia, South Korea and Panama participated.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]}

Australia's baseball team at World Games I in 1981 at San Jose Municipal Stadium

Korean baseball fans cheer for their team at World Games I.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
United States Bob Batesole Pat Clements Mike Dotterer Burk Goldthorn Bruce Johnson Dan Jones Jr. Todd Lamb Gregg Lomnicky Tony Mack Oddibe McDowell Spike Owen Jim Paciorek John Russell Augie Schmidt Howard Simmons Dave Stenhouse Jr. Franklin Stubbs Mike Toothman Ed Vosberg Brian Wolcott	South Korea Bae Dae-woong Cheon Bo-seong Choi Dong-won Ha Ki-ryong Hwang Kyu-bong Im Ho-kyun Jang Hyo-jo Kim Bong-yeon Kim Il-kwon Kim Jae-bak Kim Jeong-soo Kim Jin-woo Kim Si-jin Kim Yong-hee Lee Hae-chang Lee Seon-heui Oh Dae-suk Ryu Du-yeol Sim Jae-won Sunwoo Dae-yeong	Australia Neil Burke       Elkson Peter Gahan John Galloway       Hendy       Home Mark Linger       Mazelian       McIntyre Ray Mitchell       Orford Graham Ward Alan Wignall others . . . . . .

Standing

Team	W	L	RS	RA
United States	3	0	24	10
South Korea	2	1	19	10
Australia	1	2	13	26
Panama	0	3	12	22

Details

Tuesday, July 28, 1981:

United States 9, Panama 1
South Korea 10, Australia 0

July 28 17:00
San Jose Municipal Stadium

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Panama	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	6	3
United States	2	0	2	0	2	0	1	2	X	9	12	1
WP: Todd Lamb   LP: L Dominguez

July 28 20:00
San Jose Municipal Stadium

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H
Australia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
South Korea	0	1	1	0	3	1	4	0	X	10	11
WP: Choi Dong-won   LP: ? Home runs: AUS: None KOR: None

Wednesday, July 29, 1981:

United States 11, Australia 7
South Korea 7, Panama 6

July 29 17:00
San Jose Municipal Stadium

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
United States	0	0	2	2	4	3	0	0	0	11	12	2
Australia	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	3	0	7	13	6
WP: Bruce Johnson   LP:        Orford Home runs: USA: John Russell in 6th, 2 on AUS: None

July 29 20:00
San Jose Municipal Stadium

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R
Panama	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	0	6
South Korea	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	3	7
WP: ?   LP: ?

Thursday, July 30, 1981:

Australia 6, Panama 5
United States 4, South Korea 2

July 30 17:00
San Jose Municipal Stadium

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R
Panama	2	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	5
Australia	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	2	6
WP: Ray Mitchell   LP: Ronaldo Montero Home runs: PAN: None AUS: Peter Gahan in 9th, 1 on

July 30 20:00
San Jose Municipal Stadium

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
South Korea	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	3
United States	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	X	4	8	0
WP: Ed Vosberg   LP: Choi Dong-won Home runs: KOR: None USA: Oddibe McDowell

Other known individual participants: PAN – R Dominguez, de Leon, Proveda

References

1. "World Games Results". United Press International. July 30, 1981.
2. "Santa Clara, USA 1981 Calendar & Results". International World Games Association. Retrieved 2015-10-25.
3. "Results of the World Games". International World Games Association. Retrieved 2015-10-25.
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5. "World Games". San Jose Mercury-News. San Jose, California. July 30, 1981. p. 12E.
6. "World Games". San Jose Mercury-News. San Jose, California. July 31, 1981. p. 10E.
7. "World Games". San Jose Mercury-News. San Jose, California. August 1, 1981. p. 4E.
8. Payne, Dave (July 23, 1981). "Future baseball stars on display in World Games". San Jose Mercury-News. San Jose, California. p. 6E.
9. "U.S. roller skaters take early lead". San Jose Mercury-News. San Jose, California. July 29, 1981. p. 9D.
10. "U.S. ties Brazil, maintains top spot in roller hockey". San Jose Mercury-News. San Jose, California. July 30, 1981. p. 11E.
11. Finch, Peter (July 31, 1981). "Pinch homer keys Aussies". San Jose Mercury-News. San Jose, California. p. 1E.
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