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Baseball was first introduced to China in 1864 with the establishment of the Shanghai Baseball Club by American medical missionary Henry William Boone. [3] The Qing dynasty then began sending Chinese students to America to learn more about the game. [4]
The Chinese Professional Baseball League was established on October 23, 1989, with Hung Teng-sheng acting as secretary-general. Because of his contribution to professional baseball in Taiwan, Hung is sometimes referred to as the "Father of the CPBL." [2] Chung Meng-shun (鍾孟舜) designed every original logo of the four founding teams. [3]
Chinese baseball may refer to: Kickball, a baseball-like game in which a ball is kicked instead; Baseball in China; Baseball in the Republic of China
The Chinese Baseball Association (CBA) is the national governing body for baseball in China. It was founded in 1979 and joined the International Baseball Federation in 1981 and the Baseball Federation of Asia in 1985.
The China Baseball League (Chinese: 中国棒球联赛, CBL) is a professional baseball league under the administration of Chinese Baseball Association, founded in 2002. The league suspended operations in 2012 due to financial troubles after the 2011 season, but returned in 2014. [ 1 ]
China competed in the inaugural 2006 World Baseball Classic and finished 15th in the tournament. It also competed in the 2009 World Baseball Classic, managed by Terry Collins. In the 2009 tournament, China recorded a 4–1 win over Chinese Taipei but was eliminated after losses to Japan and South Korea. [citation needed]
Major League Baseball and Nippon Major League Baseball, which originally planned to develop the Chinese market and invested manpower and material support, have gradually reduced the scale of cooperation or withdrawn, resulting in more difficult operations in the Chinese Baseball League and a decrease in the number of league games year by year.
2020: Dave Roberts becomes the first Asian-American baseball manager to win the World Series. [85] 2020: Kim Ng is hired by the Miami Marlins as the first Asian-American to serve as general manager of an MLB team. [86] 2023: Corbin Carroll becomes the first Asian-American to win a Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award. [87]