Baseball was featured at the 1990 Goodwill Games. The tournament was contested from July 26 to 31 between eight national teams: hosts United States, Canada, Chinese Taipei, Cuba, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Soviet Union. All the games were played at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma. This tournament marked the Soviet Union baseball team's first appearance in an international competition.
Cuba won the gold medal by defeating Japan in the final, while the United States secured the bronze after defeating Canada. Puerto Rico finished fifth, followed by Chinese Taipei in sixth, Mexico in seventh, and the Soviet Union in eighth.
This was the first and only occasion that baseball was included in the Goodwill Games program.
Venue Tacoma Cheney Stadium Capacity: 8,027
Medalists Men's tournament Omar AjeteLuis CasanovaOsvaldo FernándezLourdes GourrielAlberto HernándezOrlando HernándezOrestes KindelánOmar LinaresJavier MéndezGermán MesaVíctor MesaAntonio PachecoJuan PadillaPedro RodríguezEuclides RojasReynaldo SantanaLuis UlaciaErmidelio UrrutiaJorge Luis ValdésLázaro ValleManager: Servio Borges Chihiro HamanaShigetoshi HasegawaShigeo KajitaShinichiro KawabataHideo KoikeKojiri MachidamKengo MakamuraKazuhiko MiyakawaYoshitaka MizuoKazuki MochiyamaHiroshi NaraharaEiji OchiaiShinichi OkumuraKatsuhito OsakaKazuya SaitoKoichi SekikawaTerunobu SetoShingo TakatsuAkihiro YanoTakayuki YokoiManager: Toshio Uchida Jim AustinDoug BennettDarren BraggRoger BurnettPaul ByrdJoe CiccarellaJorge FábregasBrent GatesChris GomezJoey HamiltonScott HattebergMike HostetlerDamon MashoreDavid McCartyDarrin PaxtonAaron SeleJo Jo SmithPhil StidhamTroy TallmanPookie WilsonManager: Jim Morris
Round robin Group A
Results
Group B
Results
Knockout stage
Final standings Pos Team W L 5 0 4 1 3 2 4 2 3 5 3 2 6 1 4 7 2 3 8 0 5
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