After hearing about Team Taiwan’s historic gold medal baseball win at the Premier 12 on November 24th I reached out to Richard Wang who I previously interviewed in 2020 about how Taiwan was the only place on the planet where professional baseball was being played during the COVID pandemic and since the entire world was watching, it led to English broadcasts of Taiwan’s baseball games.
Well, it turns out that Richard was at the Tokyo Dome for Premier 12 and even had the honor of calling out all the names of Team Taiwan’s players as they were awarded their gold medals.
In the spirit of Giving Tuesday, which was on December 3rd, I thought it would be fun to celebrate Team Taiwan’s win by inviting others to be “in the audience” during my online interview with Richard, so I put out the word on social media. Special thanks to all those who attended the online event on such short notice.
Related Links:
BASEBALL/Taiwan wins first gold in world-class national team level baseball: https://focustaiwan.tw/sports/202411240014
FEATURE/Captain Taiwan: Chen Chieh-hsien and his glorious return to Japan: https://focustaiwan.tw/sports/202411250015
‘Team Taiwan’ return home to heroes’ welcome after baseball win over Japan: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/11/26/team-taiwan-return-home-to-heroes-welcome-after-baseball-win-over-japan
Baseball team parade draws thousands: https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2024/11/27/2003827546
Lions (aka Uni-Lions) Taiwanese baseball team: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni-President_7-Eleven_Lions
Chien-Ming Wang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chien-Ming_Wang
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