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| Interesting read on ESPN.com today about developing baseball in China. As you probably have seen, Japanese players have made a big splash in America, so what about their more populated neighbors to the West? Courtney explained the rules of baseball to her sophomore classes, whose English is quite good. They had no idea what she was talking about.
Is baseball going to be big in the next 10-20 years? Don't count on it.
From the article:
"Shen Wei, the general secretary for China baseball, says there are
2,000 registered baseball players in the 14-18 age group and 400
registered players 18 or older. There are 200 elementary schools with
baseball programs and 15-20 players on each of those teams. She says
there are approximately 60 university teams. Little League baseball,
meanwhile, says it had five leagues chartered in China last year with
29 teams and about 400 combined players. Add the six professional teams
in the five-year-old China Baseball League and there are perhaps 8,000
players in organized baseball in a country of 1.3 billion."
China gets an automatic bid for the 2008 Olympic games because it is hosting. They'd better get better quick, or Courtney might have to teach her students a new idiomatic phrase: Mercy Rule.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/asia/columns/story?columnist=caple_jim&id=2766716&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab3pos1
--MB
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| So just how much sway does China have on life in the US? How has your stock portfolio changed in the past 48 hours?
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| Throughout our vacation, people asked us about who we were, where we're from, and what we were doing in Southeast Asia. When we went through customs in Indonesia, I told the guards I was from America and Michael was my husband. At that point the guards interrupted me and said, "And he (pointing at Ian), he is your son?"
I'm not very good at Biology, but I'm pretty sure this equation is NOT true --
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Normally we would just pass this one instance off as a stupid mistake, but people continually asked me if Ian was my son! Perhaps I look like I'm in my thirties or Ian looks like he's 15, but I still don't know how it's biologically possible for Michael and I to have an Asian son. And no, there's no mailman :)
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