Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/03/01
By: Joseph Yeh, CNA staff reporter
Baseball may be Taiwan’s national pastime, but as in most countries where the game is
Photo courtesy of the Taiwan Women’s Baseball Advocate Association
played, it has remained almost exclusively a game for men.
Taiwan’s first women’s baseball team was not founded until early in the 21st century, in 2001, almost a century later than the creation of its first men’s team during Japanese colonial rule in 1903.
Today, 17 years later, three pioneers are hoping to make baseball an even more viable option for female athletes in Taiwan after being signed to play in the world’s only professional baseball league for women — the Japan Women’s Baseball League (JWBL).
They are pitcher/infielder Hsieh Yu-ying (謝鈺瀅) and outfielder Shen Chia-wen (沈嘉文), who will play for the Kyoto Flora, and pitcher/outfielder Tseng Chi (曾琪), who will join the Aichi Dione. [FULL STORY]
