TAIWAN - Taiwan, which will be looking to advance to the top eight in the 2009 World Baseball Classic, has released the preliminary selection of players for the tournament. The Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) announced a list ...

TAIWAN - The Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) recently held its 2008 New Player Draft which also included a Special Draft for players from the disbanded dmedia T-Rex and Chinatrust Whales franchises. SPECIAL DRAFT The Sinon Bulls used the top pick to ...

TAIWAN - The legendary Sadaharu Oh, the Japanese home-run king of baseball, yesterday canceled his plans to visit Taiwan, due to the death of his older brother. Oh was scheduled to arrive in Taiwan yesterday evening, but called off the trip after learning that his brother, older by 10 years, had ...

TAIWAN - Premier Liu Chao-shiuan pledged recently to pool resources of all government units to push for the successful development of professional baseball in Taiwan. Liu made the promise in response to a suggestion by the Taiwan-born New York Yankees starter, Chien-Ming Wang, who was selected as one of the 10 ...

TAIWAN - The slow demise of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) continued on Tuesday as [caption id="attachment_2767" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Chinatrust Whales Team Executives Hold Press Conference To Announce Their Decision To Disband CPBL Franchise."]...

TAIWAN - La New Bears ace Mike Johnson was named the 2008 Most Valuable Player in the Chinese Professional Baseball League while Brother Elephants hurler, Yu-Cheng Liao, claimed Most Improved Player honors while also winning the ERA title. Chi-Wei Lin ...

TAIWAN - Luther Hackman tossed a complete game shutout and the Uni-President Lions blanked the Brother Elephants, 4-0, to win the Taiwan Series on Sunday in front of 12,000 fans to capture the Chinese Professional Baseball League Championship. Hackman turned in his second dominant outing going the distance while limiting the ...