Baseball at the 1988 Summer Olympics was a demonstration sport for the seventh time. It would become an official sport four 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. Five teams that competed in the 1984 tournament returned. Cuba originally qualified but withdrew as a result of the boycott.

Teams Source:

(Invited to replace Cuba. Nicaragua, Mexico and Italy had senior rights, but could not send teams at short notice) (1987 Pan American Games fourth place, defeated 1987 European Baseball Championship silver medalist in a playoff) (1987 Asian Baseball Championship gold medalist) (1984 Summer Olympics gold medalist) (1987 European Baseball Championship gold medalist) (1987 Pan American Games bronze medalist) (Hosts) (1987 Pan American Games silver medalist)

Preliminary round There were two pools for the preliminary round. Teams played each of the three other teams in their division.

Blue Division

White Division

Knockout round

Semifinals The semifinals pitted the first-place team of each division against the second-place team of the other division. Thus, Japan (3–0) played against South Korea (2–1), which had a tied record with the United States (2–1) but had lost in head-to-head competition against them. The first-place Americans played against Puerto Rico (2–1).

Third-place final The third-place final pitted the losers of the semifinals against each, with the winner taking third place and the loser taking fourth.

First-place final The winners of the semifinals played each other for first and second place. In a rematch of the 1984 final, the reigning champion Japanese team lost to the United States. Since baseball was a demonstration sport, no official medals were awarded.

Rosters

Australia Anthony Adamson Barrie Bahnert David Buckthorpe Scott Cameron David Clarkson Jon Deeble Malcolm Gregg Shaun Harbar Gregory Harvey Kim Jessop Geoffrey Martin Parris Mitchell Michael Nind Matthew Sheldon-Collins Peter Hartas Tony Thomson Peter Vogler Grant Weir Darren Welch Peter Wood Source

Canada Rob Butler Bill Byckowski Rheal Cormier Randy Curran Gregory Duce Marc Griffin Stewart Hillman Peter Hoy Lome Franklin Humber Rick Johnston James Kotkas Alan Mauthe Thomas Nelson Greg O'Halloran Barry Parisotto Greg Roth David Rypien Warren Sawkiw Matt Stairs Dave Wainhouse Source

Chinese Taipei Chin-Mou Chen Yi-Hsin Chen Tai-Chuan Chiang Cheng-Chin Hong I-Chung Hong Chiung-Lung Huang Ping-Yang Huang Cheng-Cherng Kuo Kuo Lee Chien-Fu Chu-Ming Lee I-Tseng Lin Lin Chung-chiu Lo Chen-Jung Lo Kuo-Chong Chi-Chen Tseng Hung-Chin Tu Kuang-Huei Wang Fu-Lien Wu Shih-Hsin Wu Chieh-Jen Yang Source

Japan 1 Masafumi Nishi, IF 2 , IF 3 , IF 6 Kenjiro Nomura, IF 8 , OF 9 Hirofumi Ogawa, IF 10 , IF 11 Tetsuya Shiozaki, P 12 Tomio Watanabe, P 14 , P 15 , P 16 Shuji Yoshida, P 18 Takehiro Ishii, P 19 Hideo Nomo, P 20 Atsuya Furuta, C 21 Makoto Maeda, OF 22 Atsuyoshi Otake, C 25 Yasushi Matsumoto, OF 27 Kenji Tomashino, OF 28 Takeshi Omori, IF 30 , head coach 31 Katsuji Kawashima, assistant coach 32 Masatake Nakayama], assistant coach Source

The Netherlands

Robert Eenhoorn Rikkert Faneyte Ron Giroldi

Jacky Jakoba

Robert Knol Frank Koot

Marcel Kruyt Alfred de Leeuw Hans van Renselaar Ronald Stoovelaar

Haitze de Vries Source

Puerto Rico Albert Bracero Elliot Cianchini Luis O. Davila Jesus I. Feliciano James C. Figueroa Anthony Garcia Efrain Garcia Eddie Horrio Jose Lorenzana Victor L. Martinez Roberto Mateo Jose V. Melendez Angel A. Morales Benedicto Poupart Mariano Quinones Luis Ramos Jorge Robles Abimael Rosario Roberto Santana Wilfredo Velez Source

South Korea Baek Jae-woo Chang Ho-ick Cho Kye-yun Choi Hae-myoung Choi Hoo-jae Hwang Dae-yeon

Kang Young-soo Kim Dong-soo Kim Ki-bum Kim Kyung-ki Kim Tae-hyoung Kwon Taek-jae Lee Kang-chul Lee Kwang-woo Lee Suk-jae Park Dong-hee Roh Chan-yup Song Gu-hong Song Jin-woo Source

United States Jim Abbott, P Bret Barberie, IF Andy Benes, P Jeff Branson, IF Mike Fiore, OF Tom Goodwin, OF Ty Griffin, IF Tino Martinez, IF Bill Masse, OF Ben McDonald, P Mike Milchin, IF/P Mickey Morandini, OF Charles Nagy, P Doug Robbins, C Scott Servais, C Dave Silvestri, IF Joe Slusarski, P Ed Sprague, IF Robin Ventura, IF Ted Wood, OF Mark Marquess, head coach Skip Bertman, assistant coach Dave Bingham, assistant coach Ron Polk, assistant coach Source

Final standings

PlaceTeam 45678

References

Official Report. Official Report Volume 2: Competition Summary and Results. 1988.