From MLB Scholarship to Grassroots Coach: The Man Bringing Baseball to the Tibetan Plateau
In Gonghe County, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, 29-year-old Huadan Banma stands on a gravel-strewn playground to coach a team of high-altitude teenagers in baseball, according to reports from Xinhua News Agency. Two decades ago, Huadan Banma was himself a child whose life shifted trajectories when a sport arrived on the grasslands sitting nearly … Read more