# Baseball at the 1981 World Games

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.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| United StatesBob 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 | South KoreaBae 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 | AustraliaNeil Burke Elkson Peter Gahan John Galloway Hendy Home Mark Linger Mazelian McIntyre Ray Mitchell Orford Graham Ward Alan Wignall others . . . . . . |

## Standing

| Team | W | L | RS | RA |
| United States | 3 | 0 | 24 | 10 |
| South Korea | 2 | 1 | 19 | 10 |
| Australia | 1 | 2 | 13 | 26 |
| Panama | 0 | 3 | 12 | 22 |

## Details

Tuesday, July 28, 1981:
    United States 9, Panama 1 South Korea 10, Australia 0
July 28 17:00 San Jose Municipal Stadium :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Panama | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 |
| United States | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | X | 9 | 12 | 1 |
| WP: Todd Lamb LP: L Dominguez |||||||||||||
July 28 20:00 San Jose Municipal Stadium :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H |
| Australia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| South Korea | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | X | 10 | 11 |
| WP: Choi Dong-won LP: ? Home runs: AUS: None KOR: None ||||||||||||
Wednesday, July 29, 1981:
    United States 11, Australia 7 South Korea 7, Panama 6
July 29 17:00 San Jose Municipal Stadium :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| United States | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 12 | 2 |
| Australia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 13 | 6 |
| WP: Bruce Johnson LP: Orford Home runs: USA: John Russell in 6th, 2 on AUS: None |||||||||||||
July 29 20:00 San Jose Municipal Stadium :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R |
| Panama | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| South Korea | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| WP: ? LP: ? |||||||||||
Thursday, July 30, 1981:
    Australia 6, Panama 5 United States 4, South Korea 2
July 30 17:00 San Jose Municipal Stadium :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R |
| Panama | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Australia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| WP: Ray Mitchell LP: Ronaldo Montero Home runs: PAN: None AUS: Peter Gahan in 9th, 1 on |||||||||||
July 30 20:00 San Jose Municipal Stadium :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| South Korea | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| United States | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | X | 4 | 8 | 0 |
| WP: Ed Vosberg LP: Choi Dong-won Home runs: KOR: None USA: Oddibe McDowell |||||||||||||
Other known individual participants: PAN – R Dominguez, de Leon, Proveda