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Baseball at the 1988 Summer Olympics was a demonstration sport for the seventh time. It would become an official sport 4 years later at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Eight teams competed in Jamsil Baseball Stadium in the baseball tournament. The format used was the same as the tournament of four years earlier.
In 1992, the first official Olympic baseball tournament was won by the Cuban team. Cuba had boycotted the 1984 and 1988 Olympics, missing the previous exhibition baseball tournaments, but entered in 1992 as the favorite, having won the past 12 world championships and with a 62–1 record in international competitions since 1986. [5] The Cubans ...
This category includes baseball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Pages in category "Baseball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total.
Team competition William Arthur Masse (born July 6, 1966) is a retired professional baseball outfielder who competed for the United States national baseball team in the 1988 Summer Olympics . A native of Manchester, Connecticut , Masse attended Davidson College and Wake Forest University .
This was the last time that the United States was represented by college players in Olympic competition. Other countries, meanwhile, used their best professionals. Roster. The following is the United States roster in the men's basketball tournament of the 1988 Summer Olympics. [5]
David Joseph Silvestri (born September 29, 1967) is an American former infielder in Major League Baseball from 1992 to 1999. He also played for the United States baseball team at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
While playing college baseball for the Cowboys at OSU, Ventura was a three-time All-American who achieved a Division I-record 58-game hitting streak. In 1988, he won the Dick Howser Trophy and Golden Spikes Award and played for the gold medal-winning Olympic baseball team. In his MLB career, he hit 18 grand slams, ranking fifth all-time.
Baseball returned as a demonstration sport at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Again an eight-team tournament, the United States finished first in the tournament ...