Baseball
Japan was one of the eight teams to play in the first Olympic baseball tournament. In the preliminary round, the Japanese team defeated the United States and four other teams, but lost to Cuba and Chinese Taipei to come in third place in the round after those two teams. In the semifinal, Japan again played against Taipei, losing once more to be relegated to the bronze medal game. There, they again faced the United States and repeated their victory to take home the medal.
Men's Team Competition:
- Japan → Bronze Medal (6-3)
Team Roster
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- Tomohito Ito
- Shinichiro Kawabata
- Masahito Kohiyama
- Hirotami Kojima
- Hiroki Kokubo
- Takashi Miwa
- Hiroshi Nakamoto
- Masafumi Nishi
- Kazutaka Nishiyama
- Koichi Oshima
- Hiroyuki Sakaguchi
- Shinichi Sato
- Yasuhiro Sato
- Masanori Sugiura
- Kento Sugiyama
- Yasunori Takami
- Akihiro Togo
- Koji Tokunaga
- Shigeki Wakabayashi
- Katsumi Watanabe
Read more about this topic: Japan At The 1992 Summer Olympics
Famous quotes containing the word baseball:
“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)
“Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceiling one afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)