Baseball
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's team | Cuba (CUB) Juan Manrique Garcia Orestes Kindelán Antonio Scull Alberto Hernández Antonio Pacheco Massó Juan Padilla Omar Linares Lazaro Vargas Alverez Miguel Caldés Luis Eduardo Paret José Estrada González Rey Isaac Vaillant Luis Ulacia Alverez Pedro Luis Lazo Eliecer Montes de Oca José Contreras Omar Luis Martinez Omar Ajete Ormari Romero Jorge Fumero |
Japan (JPN) Masahiko Mori Jutaro Kimura Masao Morinaka Hitoshi Ono Takashi Kurosu Masahiro Nojima Makoto Imaoka Kosuke Fukudome Takayuki Takabayashi Yasuyuki Saigo Masanori Sugiura Takeo Kawamura Koichi Misawa Hideaki Okubo Nobuhiko Matsunaka Tadahito Iguchi Takao Kuwamoto Daishin Nakamura Tomoaki Sato Yoshitomo Tani |
United States (USA) Kris Benson R.A. Dickey Troy Glaus Chad Green Seth Greisinger Travis Lee Augie Ojeda Jason Williams Chad Allen Kip Harkrider A.J. Hinch Jacque Jones Mark Kotsay Matt LeCroy Braden Looper Brian Loyd Warren Morris Jeff Weaver Jim Parque Billy Koch |
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Famous quotes containing the word baseball:
“Compared to football, baseball is almost an Oriental game, minimizing individual stardom, requiring a wide range of aggressive and defensive skills, and filled with long periods of inaction and irresolution. It has no time limitations. Football, on the other hand, has immediate goals, resolution on every single play, and a lot of violence—itself a highlight. It has clearly distinguishable hierarchies: heroes and drones.”
—Jerry Mander, U.S. advertising executive, author. Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, ch. 15, Morrow (1978)
“I don’t like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game, but it isn’t exciting if half the stadium is empty. The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.”
—Bowie Kuhn (b. 1926)
“Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as they seem. Instead of celebrating mysteries, baseball rejoices in the absence of mysteries and trusts that, if we watch what is laid before our eyes, down to the last detail, we will cultivate the gift of seeing things as they really are.”
—Thomas Boswell, U.S. sports journalist. “The Church of Baseball,” Baseball: An Illustrated History, ed. Geoffrey C. Ward, Knopf (1994)