Given the bad news that has washed over Taiwanese baseball since last summer, fans there got some good news last week when it was announced that the city government of Taipei will establish a new baseball team.
Taipei deputy mayor Wu Ching-chi announced last week that the city would form the new team for the equivalent of $868,000US, with a third of that coming from Taiwan’s cabinet-level Sports Affairs Council. The other two-thirds of the cost would come from donations and Taipei mayor Hau Ling-bin’s second preparatory fund.
Wu said the mayor is responding to Taiwan premier Liu Chao-shiuan’s call to both the public and private sectors to revive baseball after poor showings in the Olympics and World Baseball Classic and a gambling scandal in the Chinese Professional Baseball League that led to the reduction of two teams in the circuit.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
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