MLB opens a Chinese field of dreams

baseball.jpg After all the success of the NBA in China, other American sports leagues are dying to get in on the Chinese sports market. The NFL came up with a kitschy Football-related reality TV show to win the hearts and minds of the populous, but the MLB is kicking it up a notch: they're actually letting people play baseball to get them to like it! The League has started summer sports camps around China, but they're hoping their new baseball development center at Dongbeitang High School will pay off with some major league material in time. In a country like China where baseball is a completely foreign sport, it's probably the best way, don't you think?

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What this town . . .or country needs is not a baseball development center, but instead BATTING CAGES.

Seriously, just a set of 12, with ones for 40 mph, 50 mph, 60 mph, 70 mph, 80 mph and softball. I'd pay 50 RMB for 20 balls. Really I would. Entrepernuers - step up!

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