International Stars Help Bring Out Best : Baseball: Spirit of cooperation is strong as amateur players gather at Dodger Stadium. Game honors Jackie Robinson.

It seemed as if there were more officials on the field than people in the stands during the opening ceremony of the World All-Star Baseball Game Saturday night at Dodger Stadium.

Dodger president Peter O’Malley, along with officials from Cuba and Japan, former Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn and former Dodgers Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe, was introduced.

Even Mayor Tom Bradley was there, dedicating this second-annual event to the late Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in major league baseball.

But when the field cleared of the officials, the sky-divers and the aerobic dancers--and the crowd began to swell to 13,109--the stars remaining were the 44 players who had come together from 28 countries.

As the players exchanged gifts before the game, the words of Rachel Robinson, Jackie’s wife, seemed to ring especially loud.

“I just returned from a children’s world baseball fair in Tokyo where there were 300 children from 22 countries,” she said after throwing out the ceremonial first pitch.

“The first day, the children all stayed within their own groups . . . but by the second day, they started to communicate with each other. One country knew they couldn’t win without the other country.

“Watching world events, and even the latest events in the Soviet Union, it has reconfirmed my belief that our destinies are inextricably linked. What happens to you, happens to me, and vice versa.”

This game pitted 22 players from the East team, which represents 12 nations in Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania and Antarctica, against 22 players from the West, the 15 nations in the Americas.

That meant Cuba, which had three players in the starting lineup, played on the same side as the United States, a fact greatly enjoyed by the three American all-stars, Chris Roberts of Florida State, Dan Melendez of Pepperdine and Geoff Johansen of Cal Poly Pomona. The West had an 8-6 lead in the eighth inning.

“I would rather play with the Cubans than against them,” said Roberts, who recently returned from the Pan American Games, in which Cuba won the gold medal.

“They have players on their team who could be in the majors right now, no minor league play required.”

The West scored an 8-7 victory. Both teams scored a run in the first inning, then the West took advantage of two errors and a hit batter in the second inning to open a 4-1 lead. The West scored four runs in the fourth inning, three on a home run by designated hitter Orestes Kindelan of Cuba. His homer drove in countrymen Omar Linares and Antonio Pacheco.

But the East scored three runs in the sixth inning and two in the eighth.

Roberts entered the game in the ninth inning with a runner on first base and no outs. He struck out two batters, but overthrew the first baseman on a single to the mound, allowing the East to score and the batter to advance to second base. But Roberts got Japan’s Hideaki Okubo to fly to right.

Center fielder Angel Morales of Puerto Rico was five for five for the West with three doubles, two singles and one run batted in. Linares, considered one of the best amateur players in the world, had a single, a walk and scored one run.

“I know I am popular here,” Linares said after signing autographs before the game. “(Dodger Stadium) is beautiful, very big and one of the best in the world.

“But I am happy playing in Cuba. Very content. I have no desire to play in the United States.”

International Baseball Officials said that a Soviet player was invited and had planned to attend, but backed out even before the political upheaval began Sunday.