Half a century ago, the sport of baseball was banned from China. Now MLB officials want to bring it back and open the regular season in China before it hosts the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, much the same way that Japan hosted MLB season openers in 2000 and 2004.
MLB president Bob DuPuy says, “Our goal is to open the season in China — with regular season games — in the very near future. We think that China provides enormous opportunity to us and that in a very short period of time China can do for Major League Baseball what Japan has done for Major League Baseball. China hosting the Olympics and what is, at least for the moment, the last appearance of baseball in the Olympics makes it that much more imperative that we establish a beachhead there as soon as possible.
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