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Baseball, Men

Date31 July – 7 August 1984
StatusOlympic (non-medal)
LocationDodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California
Participants153 from 8 countries

Eight teams competed in 1984, with a round-robin that advanced the top four teams to the semi-finals. Japan and the United States advanced to the final, with Japan winning the final game and the tournament, 6-3. The United States team had several future Major League players, including Mark McGwire, Barry Larkin, Will Clark, Oddibe McDowell, and B. J. Surhoff. The tournament was weakened by the absence of Cuba, which joined the Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Olympics, as Cuba was the world’s greatest amateur team in the 1980s.

PosNumberTeamNOC
1JapanJPN
Yukio Arai
Katsuyuki Fukumoto
Shinichi Furukawa
Shinji Hata
Katsumi Hirosawa
Terumitsu Kumano
Noboru Morita
Yoshihiko Morita
Munehiko Shimada
Kozo Shoda
Kazuaki Ueda
Yasushi Uragashi
Yutaka Wada
Yasuo Yoshida
Akimitsu Ito
Atsunori Ito
Kazumoto Miyamoto
Yoshiaki Nishikawa
Akira Yonemura
Yukio Yoshida
2United StatesUSA
Flavio Alfaro
Bob Caffrey
Will Clark
Gary Green
Chris Gwynn
Barry Larkin
Shane Mack
John Marzano
Oddibe McDowell
Mark McGwire
Cory Snyder
B. J. Surhoff
Sid Akins
Don August
Scott Bankhead
Mike Dunne
John Hoover
Pat Pacillo
Bill Swift
Bobby Witt
3Chinese TaipeiTPE
Chao Chih-Chiang
Chiang Tai-Chuan
Lee Chu-Ming
Leu Wen-Sheng
Li Chih-Chun
Lin Hua-Wei
Lin I-Tseng
Sung Tyung-Tai
Tsai Sen-Fong
Tseng Chi-Chen
Twu Jong-Nan
Wu Fu-Lien
Wu Te-Shen
Yang Ching-Long
Yeh Chih-Shien
Chuang Sheng-Hsiung
Kuo Tai-Yuan
Liu Chiu-Lung
Tu Fu-Ming
Tu Hung-Chin
4Republic of KoreaKOR
Ahn Un-Hak
Baek In-Ho
Choy Kai-Young
Kang Ki-Woong
Kim Hyoung-Suk
Kim Yong-Kuk
Kim Young-Sin
Lee Jong-Doo
Lee Kang-Don
Lee Soon-Chul
Park Heung-Sik
Park Noh-Jun
Yoo Joong-Il
Han Hee-Min
Kim Yong-Soo
Lee Sang-Kun
Oh Myong-Lok
Sun Dong-Ryeul
Yoon Hak-Kil
Chang Ho-Ik
=5ItalyITA
Ruggero Bagialemani
Roberto Bianchi
Giuseppe Carelli
Gianmario Costa
David Di Marco
Paolo Gagliano
Johnny Joseph Guggiana
Anthony Lo Nero
Stefano Manzini
Michele Romano
Mark Talarico
Guglielmo Trinci
Robert John Turcio
Paolo Ceccaroli
David Chiono
Louis Colabello
Keith D'Amato
David Farina
Massimo Fochi
Roberto Mari
=5CanadaCAN
Henry Andrulis
Larry Downes
Joe Heeney
John Ivan
Scott Mann
Scott Maxwell
Bob McCullough
Doug McPhail
Tom Nelson
Rob Thomson
Mike Gardiner
Rod Heisler
Barry Kuzminski
Alain Patenaude
Steve Wilson
Mark Wooden
=7Dominican RepublicDOM
Rafael Almonte
Nelson Céspedes
Iván Crispín
Nicolás Domitilo
José Florentino
Junior Geibal
Pedro Gómez
Víctor Gómez
Orlando Guerrero
Secundino Lora
Ramón Martínez
Miguel Mota
Johnny Olivo
Héctor Paniagua
Francisco Pans
Bernardo Reyes
Antonio Sánchez
Abad Santana
Aristides Taveras
Juan Ortiz
=7NicaraguaNCA
Luis Arauz
Leonardo Cárdenas
Juan Centeno
César Chavarría
Francisco Cruz
José Cruz
Ariel Delgado
Julio Espinoza
Roberto Espino
Fabio García
Juan Garmendez
Tomás Guzmán
Julio Medina
Jaime Miranda
Julio Moya
Arnoldo Muñoz
Diego Raudez
Julio Sánchez
Richard Taylor
Silvio Barreto

Preliminary Round

Date31 July – 5 August 1984

Group White

Date31 July – 4 August 1984
PosTeamNOCWonTiedLostPointsRuns
1United StatesUSA300630-2
2Chinese TaipeiTPE201424-3
3ItalyITA102211-33
4Dominican RepublicDOM00308-35
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Game #131 JulItalyITA10 – 7Dominican RepublicDOM
Game #231 JulUnited StatesUSA2 – 1Chinese TaipeiTPE
Game #302 AugChinese TaipeiTPE13 – 1Dominican RepublicDOM
Game #402 AugUnited StatesUSA16 – 1ItalyITA
Game #504 AugUnited StatesUSA12 – 0Dominican RepublicDOM
Game #604 AugChinese TaipeiTPE10 – 0ItalyITA

Group Blue

Date1 – 5 August 1984
PosTeamNOCWonTiedLostPointsRuns
1JapanJPN201425-7
2Republic of KoreaKOR201410-9
3CanadaCAN102210-11
4NicaraguaNCA102211-29
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Game #101 AugNicaraguaNCA4 – 3CanadaCAN12 innings
Game #201 AugJapanJPN2 – 0Republic of KoreaKOR
Game #303 AugRepublic of KoreaKOR3 – 1CanadaCAN
Game #403 AugJapanJPN19 – 1NicaraguaNCA
Game #505 AugCanadaCAN6 – 4JapanJPN
Game #605 AugRepublic of KoreaKOR7 – 6NicaraguaNCA

Semi-Finals

Date6 August 1984
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Game #106 AugJapanJPN2 – 1Chinese TaipeiTPE10 innings
Game #206 AugUnited StatesUSA5 – 2Republic of KoreaKOR

Final Round

Date7 August 1984
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Game 1/207 AugJapanJPN6 – 3United StatesUSA
Game 3/407 AugChinese TaipeiTPE3 – 0Republic of KoreaKOR14 innings