| Event: | Baseball |
| Games: | 1946 Central American and Caribbean Games |
| Venue: | Estadio de Baseball, Barranquilla |
| Dates: | 9 — 28 December 1946 |
| Teams: | 9 |
| Competitors: | 146 |
| Nations: | 9 |
| Prev: | 1938 |
| Next: | 1950 |
Baseball was contested at the 1946 Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla, Colombia.
Nine countries participated. The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.[1]
Willy Miranda, a future Major League Baseball with the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles, made his debut with the Cuba national team in the 1946 Games, hitting .250.[2]
| Men's baseball | Humberto Vargas Armando Crizon Pedro Miranda Carlos Bustos José Araújo Isaac Villers Julio Florez Ramón Herazo Carlos Rodríguez Andrés Cavadías Julio Galofra Cosme Pájaro Andrés Florez Enrique Hernández Pedro Zambrano Cipriano Herrera Manuel Peñaranda José Corpas | Luis M. Muñoz Marino Pérez Ramón E. Vargas Vicente Scarpatte Juan B. Álvarez Aquiles Martínez Rafael A. Vargas Oscar A. Álvarez Miguel Payano Bienvenido Arias Oscar Mir José A. Matos Manuel A. Trabous Julio Lara Luis T. Vinals Diomedes Olivo Román Ramos Fernando Abreu | Rouget Ávalos Bernardo Cuervo Mario Chacón Julio Delgado Mario Díaz Alfredo Domínguez Ignacio Ferrer Alberto Gómez Ángel González Hiram González José L. García Guillermo Miranda Miguel Montiel Mario Pérez Ramiro Ramírez René Solís Gilberto Soto Generoso Stable |
The group stage featured a round robin format to determine the medal winners, similar to the format of the 1938 tournament.
| Statistic | Name | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batting average | César González | .479 | ||
| Hits | Alberto Gómez | align=center | 15 | |
| Runs | Pedro Miranda Fausto Fuenmayor | align=center | 8 | |
| Home runs | Manuel Trabous | align=center | 1 | |
| Stolen bases | Pedro Miranda | align=center | 7 |
| Statistic | Name | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins | align=center | 3 | ||
| Losses | 5 tied with | align=center | 2 | |
| Innings pitched | align=center | 36.1 | ||
| Earned run average | align=center | 0.00 | ||
| Strikeouts | align=center | 27 |