Pure Baseball in China
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Chinese youngsters bring back baseball's innocence at Dodgers game
BEIJING -- He wore a black baseball cap and the wide eyes of a kid about to watch something exciting for the first time. He could have been a boy in a baseball stadium anywhere in America.
Zhang Xu Deng, 12, looked at me quizzically. "See that man wearing white?" he asked, speaking through an interpreter. Zhang pointed at Dodgers right fielder Matt Kemp, placidly warming up in the outfield. "Why is that man wearing white standing there throwing the ball to that other man? Does he always just stand there, or can he use his stick to hit the ball?"
In a bandbox Olympic stadium, the Dodgers were about to play an exhibition game against the San Diego Padres. This would be the first major league game ever played in China. It would also be the first game, proper rules and all, that Zhang and his group of friends would ever see.
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An interesting read, to say the least - I am a big fan of this trip, on the whole.
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Say 'Dodgers' and people know you're talking about baseball. Say 'Braves' and they ask, 'What reservation?' Say 'Reds' and they think of communism. Say 'Padres' and they look around for a priest.
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Pure Baseball in China
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