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Chien-Ming Wang.

The ace Taiwanese pitcher is helping break the culture barrier

At 8, barely off the boat from Shanghai, I found my way to
the American Dream, courtesy of my love for Jackie Robinson,
the first African American to play major league baseball.

Now there's Chien-Ming Wang. He's a member of my tribe.
He too wrestles with English. But he has more in common with
Jackie than with me.

The Yankees ace, 27, won 19 games last year, and as runner
-up for the Cy Young Award, he is a rising star. In his island home,
he is already a supernova. Whenever he pitches, whether it's a live
telecast or a rerun, Taiwan ditches its political woes and personal
cares to huddle in boardrooms -- to cheer Chien-Ming. No matter
that the fan shouting alongside is mandarin or mendicant, from the
mainland or local born, a great-great-grandma with bound feet or a
bare-bottomedtot, the voices are one.

Once Jackie's excellence and elegance broke the color barrier.
Nowadays the Ichiros, Dice-Ks and Chien-Mings of baseball are
chipping away at the culture barrier. At a time when clashes of
civilizations warm up in the on-deck circle, this 8-year-old heart
dreams of a world as hopeful and intimate as bygone Ebbets Field.


Comments (474)

其實職業運動的力量,
也許不是各球隊與商人當初創辦時可以想見的.


李家同曾經批評台灣學子只知道NBA卻不知國際時勢,
也許立論出發點是善意的, 但事實上李對球員與球團的國際地位與影響力, 可能遠不如三流大學的學生.


更別提及那些球賽分析的數據與戰術, 行銷市場與薪資平衡,
對李來說可能是無字天書.


王建民在球場上的一切固然是驚人的,
但其實他對於他份外的事永遠都不多言,
就是專注著投他的球, 不浮誇, 只有踏實跟努力的成就, 跨越了某些政經無法消弭的隔閡, 好表現贏得不分種族的肯定, 這才是王最龐大的影響力.


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