Taipei Times
Date: Nov 25, 2016
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter

A baseball league begins in Taichung today in a six-team format, including two Japanese teams, with fans promised plenty of Taiwanese culture and entertainment.

The Asia Winter Baseball league is in its fourth year, with 51 games scheduled over the next two months in Taichung and Yunlin County’s Douliou City.

Two teams from Taiwan, one from South Korea and a Europe United team of players from the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Czech Republic and Romania are to play alongside Japan East and Japan West.

“Officials from Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball were very happy with the results from past years, with their players receiving good training and high-level competition. So more Japanese clubs wants to join the Asia Winter Baseball,” Chinese Professional Baseball League secretary-general Chu Kang-cheng said. “They will have two teams this year, Japan East and Japan West.”    [FULL  STORY]