Pan American Games : 1999

 

Republic of Domenica issued stamps featuring baseball and weight-lifting for the 1999 games

Cuba issued a baseball stamps along with stamps for volleyball and boxing

Baseball at the 1999 Pan American Games was held between July 25 and August 2 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. A total of nine teams competed: Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and the United States. The primary venue for this competition was CanWest Global Park, while Stonewall Quarry Park in Stonewall, Manitoba, was used as a secondary venue.

Cuba entered the competition as the seven-time defending champions, having won each gold medal dating back to 1971. They successfully defended their title, with the United States finishing second (Silver), Canada finished third (Bronze)

Canada Post issued 4-stamps for the games featuring soccer, swimming, cycling and track

The 1999 Pan American Games, officially the XIII Pan American Games or the 13th Pan American Games, was a major international multi-sport event that was held from July 23 to August 8, 1999, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and surrounding towns and cities

Players advancing to MLB:

Team USA: Travis Dawkins, Adam Kennedy, Marcus Jensen, Craig Paquette, Dan Wheeler

Team Cuba: Jose Contreras, Danys Baez

Team Canada: Andy Stewart, Ryan Radmanovich

Pan-American Games : 1951 - -

The Pan American (Pan Am) Games is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The competition is held among athletes from nations of the Americas, every four years in the year before the Summer Olympic Games. The Pan American Sports Organization (PASO) is the governing body of the Pan American Games movement, whose structure and actions are defined by the Olympic Charter

1959-Oct-26

Panama issued a set of six stamps commemorating the 1959 Pan-American Games, Chicago, Il between August 28 and September 7Baseball at the Pan-American Games consisted of 9 participants. Games were played at Comiskey Park and Wrigley Field, Chicago

Venezuela - Gold; Puerto Rico - Silver; United States - Bronze

The games were originally awarded to Cleveland, but they had to withdraw their bid to host the event. Chicago and Sao Paulo, Brazil came forward to take over the games, with Chicago being selected to host the event

1971 - Cali, Colombia

Cuba - Gold; United States - Silver, Colombia - Bronze

1987 Indianapolis, In

Cuba - Gold, United States - Silver; Puerto Rico - Bronze

Artmaster included the sport of baseball on their cachet for the 1987 Pan Am Games issue, commemorating the games held in Indianapolis, In

1991 Havana, Cuba

Cuba - Gold; Puerto Rico - Silver; United States - Bronze

1999 Dominican  Republic - (Winnipeg, Canada)

Cuba - Gold; United States - Silver; Canada - Bronze

Trujillo Stadium - Dominican Republic

Trujillo Stadum 1959 Dominican Republic

Trujillo Stadium, the ballpark named for the nation's not so beloved dictator, was nothing more than a band-box of concrete and steel, whitewashed and covered with red and black political posters.

Trujillo, "El Presidente" had built the stadium as a gesture of his everlasting goodwill to his exploited people: he knew they loved baseball...

excerpt from The End of Baseball, Peter Schilling Jr