Yankees hope to win over locals with trophy display
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February 4, 2010, Thursday
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THE New York Yankees showed off the World Series trophy in Beijing yesterday, hoping to inspire young Chinese to aspire to winning baseball's greatest prize.
Baseball in China has been hard hit by the sport's removal from the Olympics but the Yankees also brought some good news with them when it was confirmed that the Beijing Games stadium would be rebuilt in the southeastern port city of Xiamen.
"We feel it is a great opportunity here in China to continue to grow the game of baseball," Brian Cashman, general manager of Yankees, said.
"And hopefully one day a citizen of China will participate and help a Major League Baseball team win a world championship, just like many members who have already done so from other countries now."
The Yankees are doing their best to help out and created a partnership with the Chinese Baseball Association (CBA) three years ago, the first between the CBA and an MLB club.
"What we gonna try to do is to expose it a little more here in conjunction with the experts of Chinese Baseball Association and the Chinese people," Yankees President Randy Levine said. "We are not presumptuous enough to say what's gonna be successful but we are here just trying to help give kids choices and opportunity to decide."
CBA chairman Lei Jun announced that the Wukesong Baseball Field, the only one in China to have witnessed major league players, would be rebuilt in Xiamen, Fujian Province. "This plan started as early as November 2008, when the field was demolished," Lei said. "It is the only case so far that an Olympic heritage being relocated as a whole in the world."
The MLB opened a development center in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, last year, which provides professional training to Chinese youngsters in an academic environment.
Baseball in China has been hard hit by the sport's removal from the Olympics but the Yankees also brought some good news with them when it was confirmed that the Beijing Games stadium would be rebuilt in the southeastern port city of Xiamen.
"We feel it is a great opportunity here in China to continue to grow the game of baseball," Brian Cashman, general manager of Yankees, said.
"And hopefully one day a citizen of China will participate and help a Major League Baseball team win a world championship, just like many members who have already done so from other countries now."
The Yankees are doing their best to help out and created a partnership with the Chinese Baseball Association (CBA) three years ago, the first between the CBA and an MLB club.
"What we gonna try to do is to expose it a little more here in conjunction with the experts of Chinese Baseball Association and the Chinese people," Yankees President Randy Levine said. "We are not presumptuous enough to say what's gonna be successful but we are here just trying to help give kids choices and opportunity to decide."
CBA chairman Lei Jun announced that the Wukesong Baseball Field, the only one in China to have witnessed major league players, would be rebuilt in Xiamen, Fujian Province. "This plan started as early as November 2008, when the field was demolished," Lei said. "It is the only case so far that an Olympic heritage being relocated as a whole in the world."
The MLB opened a development center in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, last year, which provides professional training to Chinese youngsters in an academic environment.
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