Thu, May 09, 2002 - Page 15 News List

Long live the Kings, last of the expat softball teams

AWAY GAME Taiwan's national pastime of softball was developed by US soldiers in the 1960s who were stationed in the country. Now only one foreign team remains

By Jules Quartly  /  CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

On the home-field front TAS has put up a net that is said to have cost around NT$1 million, so that baseball and softball can once again be played.

"We hope the league will get started for the fall and plan to have a teachers team," TAS' Bob Ferran told the Taipei Times in an e-mail last week.

The Budweiser Kings currently play in tournaments and the Sanchung league. They also play international games in the Philippines and elsewhere. For further information contact: Rick France at rfrance@gcn.net.tw

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