1987 Asian Baseball Championship

1987 Asian Baseball Championship
Tournament details
Host country  Japan
Teams 7
Defending champions  Japan (1985)
Final positions
Champions
 Chinese Taipei (1st title)
Runner-up
 Japan
Third place
 South Korea
Fourth place  Guam

The 1987 Asian Baseball Championship was the fourteenth continental tournament held by the Baseball Federation of Asia. The tournament was held in Tokyo, Japan for the third time. The tournament was won by Chinese Taipei; their first gold medal in the Asian Baseball Championship.[1]

Guam (4th) and India (7th) both made their first appearances at the tournament and became the seventh and eighth teams to contest the championship. Defending champions Japan (2nd), South Korea (3rd), Australia (5th) and China (6th) were the other participants.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Bjarkman 2005, pp.477–8

Bibliography

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