CHINA – Baseball may eventually have a future in China. It seems the same can’t be said for the baseball venues built for the Beijing Olympics.

Put up as temporary structures, the two Olympic baseball stadiums and a practice facility are likely to be razed next year unless baseball backers devise a plan to make the game profitable on a high-priced slice of land in west Beijing.

The venues were built on a 125-acre site that’s slated to become a shopping mall and a sports/entertainment complex with 5,000 parking spaces. Development already includes a 3 million-square-foot retail complex and the 18,000-seat Olympic basketball venue.

Baseball doesn’t seem to have a place.

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