Asian baseball leagues Asian baseball leagues The Central League (セントラル・リーグ Sentoraru Riigu) is one of Japan's two major professional baseball leagues (the other is the Pacific League). In Japanese, it is often referred to as the "Se League." ...more on Wikipedia about "Central League"
The China Baseball League (中国棒球联赛) or Chinese Baseball League or CBL is a fledgling professional baseball league in the People's Republic of China, founded in 2002. ...more on Wikipedia about "China Baseball League"
:Part of the history of baseball series. ...more on Wikipedia about "Japanese baseball"
The Korean Baseball Organization (KBO) of South Korea was founded with six teams in 1982 and currently has eight. The teams are named after the companies or conglomerates which they belong to. ...more on Wikipedia about "Korean Baseball Organization"
The Pacific League (パシフィック・リーグ Pashifikku Riigu) is one of Japan's two major professional baseball leagues (the other is the Central League). It is often referred to as the "Pa League" in Japanese. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pacific League"
Professional baseball was started in Taiwan by the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL 中華職業棒球聯盟) in 1989. At one time there were two leagues and a total of 12 professional baseball teams in Taiwan because during a row over broadcasting rights, another league, the Taiwan Major League (TML 臺灣大聯盟), was created by a television tycoon to compete with CPBL. CPBL absorbed the remaining two teams in TML in 2003 when TML fell into deep financial trouble. As of 2005, there are six professional baseball teams and one professional baseball league, the CPBL, in Taiwan with average attendance at around 5000 per game. 2005 is also the sixteenth year of CPBL. ...more on Wikipedia about "Professional baseball in Taiwan"
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