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]
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | |
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 | 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 | Neil Burke Elkson Peter Gahan John Galloway Hendy Home Mark Linger Mazelian McIntyre Ray Mitchell Orford Graham Ward Alan Wignall others . . . . . . |
| width=170 | Team | width=20 | W | width=20 | L | width=20 | RS | width=20 | RA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 0 | 24 | 10 | ||||||
| 2 | 1 | 19 | 10 | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 13 | 26 | ||||||
| 0 | 3 | 12 | 22 |
Tuesday, July 28, 1981:
United States 9, Panama 1
South Korea 10, Australia 0Wednesday, July 29, 1981:
United States 11, Australia 7
South Korea 7, Panama 6
Thursday, July 30, 1981:
Australia 6, Panama 5
United States 4, South Korea 2
Other known individual participants: PAN – R Dominguez, de Leon, Proveda