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The Taiwan Series (Chinese: 台灣大賽) is the final championship series of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL). It is usually played in late October or early November, after the regular season.
The Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL; Chinese: 中華職業棒球大聯盟; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Zhíyè Bàngqiú Dàliánméng) is the top-tier professional baseball league in Taiwan. The league was established in 1989 and played the first season in 1990. [1] CPBL eventually absorbed the competing Taiwan Major League in 2003. As of ...
34th CPBL season; League: Chinese Professional Baseball League: Sport: Baseball: Duration: April 1 – October 15: Number of teams: 5: First half-season; Season champions: Uni-President Lions: Second half-season; Season champions: Wei Chuan Dragons: Full season; Season champions: Wei Chuan Dragons: Taiwan Series; Champions: Wei Chuan Dragons ...
Teams are playing a split-season, while second-half games started on 22 July at the newly-renovated Hsinchu Municipal Baseball Stadium. The CPBL All-Star Game is being played the weekend of 30–31 July. The postseason started on 29 October, followed by the first game of the Taiwan Series on 5 November.
Football was introduced to Taiwan in 1916 by the British Presbyterian missionary Edward Band, who moved to Taiwan to serve as the principal of Tainan's Chang Jung High School. The Chang Jung High School team is considered to be the first football team in Taiwan with all current teams being in some way descendent of it. [22] [23]
In 2019, 20 years after the disbandment, the club was re-established and played the 2020 season in the minor league, before rejoining the CPBL in 2021. [3] In 2023, the Dragons defeated Rakuten Monkeys in the 2023 Taiwan Series with four wins in seven games to win their fifth championship, 24 years since their last championship. [4]
Star Game in 2013 to increase the fun, then changed to a hybrid (first defensive position by voting, that "special pick-Star Game Club" by the head coach of both teams draft) fans voted with the largest number of votes each defensive position before the two name (outfielder top six) as the starting teams, head coach of the rest of the players ...
The Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) playoffs included the three top teams from the regular season and saw Uni-President Lions crowned as the champion with the Taiwan Series through the month of October, 2007.