Ed. Note: The following article first appeared in The Taipei Times Saturday, May 25th.
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In 2002, former LA Dodgers and current La New Bears star Chen Chin-feng (陳金鋒) became the first Taiwanese baseball player to don a Major League uniform. Shortly thereafter, the first four Taiwanese players signed to MLB contracts— including Chen, Yankees starter [...]

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I do apologize to our readers for not yet following up on the epic saga of trying to get English language rosters from the CPBL administrators as promised. I will resume our tragi-comic mission this week. I know I shouldn’t bother the English-language liasion with petty requests like asking him to do his job when [...]

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Funny story via Joe Pawlikowski of MLB Traderumors. From what I gather the player is an American with a criminal record, which makes it difficult for him to get into Canada.
As a workaround he’s being traded from his Canadian-based team, the Calgary Vipers, to the Laredo Broncos of the United League.
“They just wanted some bats, [...]

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My guess is that other people living abroad will understand what I’m about to talk about here. For those who don’t or haven’t, I think any job situation  you’ve quit or been fired from is applicable. I can’t tell you how many times, in my early days as a teacher in Korea, that I got [...]

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