| Event: | Baseball |
| Games: | 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games |
| Venue: | Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, Medellín |
| Dates: | 8 — 21 July 1978 |
| Teams: | 9 |
| Competitors: | 146 |
| Nations: | 9 |
| Prev: | 1974 |
| Next: | 1982 |
Baseball was contested at the 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games in Medellín, Colombia. The games were played at the Diamante Luis Alberto Villegas, part of the Atanasio Girardot Sports Complex, between July 8 and 21. It would be the last major international baseball tournament hosted by Colombia until the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games; additionally, it is the only major baseball tournament to be played in Medellín, a region where association football has traditionally enjoyed far more popularity than baseball.
Cuba won its fourth consecutive gold medal for baseball at the Games, bringing its total to eight. The 1978 squad, which was largely the same as the squads for the 1978 Amateur World Series and 1979 Pan American Games, has been cited as the best Cuban national team selection of all time.[1]
| Men's baseball | Antonio Muñoz Armando Capiró Luis Casanova Cheíto Rodriguez Pedro Jova Alfonso Urquiola Fernando Sánchez Agustín Marquetti Pedro Medina Rey Vicente Anglada Wilfredo Sánchez Rodolfo Puente Alberto Martínez Braudilio Vinent Lázaro Santana Juan Oliva Félix Pino Gaspar Legón Santiago Mederos Rogelio García | David Green Pablo Juárez Vicente López Roberto Espino Ernesto López Calixto Vargas Julio Moya Juan Espinosa Wayne Taylor Julio Cuaresma César Jarquín Víctor Filippini Porfirio Altamirano Sergio Lacayo Douglas Moody A. Espino A. García | Milton Crespo Rogelio Negrón Juan Martínez Cesaréo Márquez Luis Mercado David Rodriguez Luis R. Colón Tulio Claudio Ramón Lara Carlos Ponce Henry Cirilo Erwin Hernández Héctor Rivera Raúl Mulero Obdulio Valentín Julio A. Cruz Carlos Crespo Robert Rivera Neftalí Maldonado Jesus Feliciano Sr. |
----------------------------------------------------Source: [2]
| Pos | Team | W | L |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 0 | ||
| 9 | 3 | ||
| 7 | 5 | ||
| 4 | 5 | 7 | |
| 5 | 5 | 7 | |
| 6 | 3 | 9 | |
| 7 | 1 | 9 | |
| Statistic | Name | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batting average | align=center | .714 | ||
| Hits | align=center | 27 | ||
| Runs batted in | align=center | 37 | ||
| Home runs | Cheíto Rodríguez | align=center | 15 | |
| Stolen bases | align=center | 3 | ||
| Wins | 4 tied with | align=center | 3 |