[The Epoch Times, July 29, 2022](The Epoch Times reporter Lin Dan in New York reported) Taiwan’s junior baseball team will go to the United States to participate in the “Little League Baseball” (LLB) in Pennsylvania after 7 years of default. In the “World Junior Baseball Competition” held by Williamsport, Fu Heming, chairman of the Flushing Development Center, will form a group to watch the game to help out, and fans are now open to register for the group.
On July 4 this year, Taipei Fulin Junior Baseball Team defeated South Korea 1:0 in the LLB Asia-Pacific Junior Baseball Championship, representing the Asia-Pacific region and entered the World Junior Baseball Championship. After the Yuanguo Junior Baseball Team entered the World Junior Baseball Tournament, the Chinese Junior Baseball Team entered the World Junior Baseball Tournament again after a lapse of 7 years.
The LLB World Junior Baseball Championship will be held in Williamsport, Pennsylvania from August 17th to August 28th. August 18 is the first game of the Taiwan Junior Baseball Team, against the European and African teams.
Baseball is the national game of the United States. It was introduced to Taiwan by the Japanese. In 1968, the Taiwan Red Leaf Junior Baseball Team expedition to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and defeated the Japanese team, which greatly inspired the morale of Taiwanese society; In particular, he won the World Junior Baseball Championship. At that time, every household in Taiwan watched the junior baseball game on a black and white TV. From 1969 to 1996, Taiwan’s junior baseball team won a total of 17 Williamsport championships. However, after 1997, the Taiwanese junior baseball team never won the world championship again, and after 2015, they did not come to the United States to participate in the world championship. Fu Heming said that he must go and cheer for them this time.
Chen Huisi, the 87-year-old former chairman of the Flushing Chinese Chamber of Commerce, came to the United States to study in 1960 from Taiwan. He said that he went to Williamsport in 1969 and 1973 to cheer for the Taiwan Junior League, and this time the Taiwan Junior League team went to the United States. In the competition, regardless of his advanced age, he will go to help out Taiwan’s junior baseball team.
The spectator team will gather at the bus stop at the junction of Flushing Library and Kessina Avenue at 7:00 am on August 18th, and the journey will take 3 hours; the game will be from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm, and lunch will be taken care of; there is food and drink in the stadium Entertainment stalls, carnivals, ESPN broadcast stations, you can also visit the Shaobang Museum, and return to Flushing at about 7 pm.
Tickets are US$30, and those under 12 are 15 yuan. Telephone: 917-375-7740; Choose your seat at the time of ticket purchase, and the top 50 will be presented with a copper coin to commemorate the start of construction of Citi Field in 2007; the top 20 will be presented with a Mets baseball cap.
Fu Heming also announced that September 2 (Friday) is the Mets professional baseball team fireworks night. The New York Mets will play the Washington Nationals at 7 p.m. that day. Citi Field organized 100 children to sing the American national anthem before the game. Set off fireworks. The Flushing Neighborhood Festival will be held on Sanford Ave. on Sunday, August 14. Children who sign up to sing should practice and sing at the Flushing Post Office on Sanford Avenue and Main Street on the afternoon of August 14. Pick up a T-shirt. To purchase tickets for the Mets game (25 yuan), and children to sign up to sing the national anthem, please contact: 917-375-7740.
Editor in charge: Chen Wenqi
