Bunun aborigine athlete becomes 2nd Taiwanese player to win a World Series ring with Boston Red Sox victory
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/10/29
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — With the Boston Red Sox beating the Los Angeles Dodgers in 5
Lin (left) (Photo from Lin Tzu-Wei Facebook page)
to 1 to win the World Series yesterday (Oct. 28), Red Sox player Lin Tzu-Wei (林子偉) has become the second Taiwanese athlete in history to win a World Series ring.
The 24-year-old Lin, who is a member of the Bunun tribe and is nicknamed “Tzunami” in Taiwan, yesterday became the second Taiwanese player to win a World Series ring, after Wang Chien-Ming (王建民) won his with the Yankees in 2009.
Lin, who is an infielder for the team, posted a photo on Facebook of his wife, child, and himself celebrating after his team’s victory and wrote, “A full year’s harvest is over.”
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