MLB gives Chinese talent something to swing for By MURRAY GREIG | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2020-12-22 08:18 Share CLOSE MLB is bringing entry-level baseball classes to school kids across China with its First Pitch clinics. The program was launched in September in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, and is organized in conjunction with the China Baseball Association and local education and sports bureaus. CHINA DAILY
Major League Baseball has partnered with Prep Baseball Report scouting service to open another potential path to the big leagues for talented youngsters－including those from China.
With the September launch of its First Pitch clinics at Fengying Primary School in Wuxi and the ongoing success of student-player development centers in Wuxi, Changzhou and Nanjing, MLB continues to spur baseball s growth in the world s most populous nation, where iResearch estimates around 8.5 million youngsters play the game.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: We are looking back at 2020’s Top 10 stories, as chosen by the newspaper staff, for our countdown to New Year’s Eve. Today’s story ranks No. 10 of the year. NILES This year was a time of uncertainty for the Mahoning Valley Scrappers.
Toward the end of 2019 and into 2020, the future of the Valley’s backyard professional baseball team was up in the air for some time after Major League Baseball announced it was going to reconfigure the Minor League system and cut a potential 42 teams.
Fans and supporters of the team immediately sprung into action to save the team.
If I ever go on to have a second career as a world-famous economist, I already have one of those quirky market indicators that all world-famous economists seem to have. Mine would be known as the LVL economic indicator.
I contend that play on the nearly 7,500 Limited Video Lottery machines in bars and clubs around the state is a good indicator of West Virginiaâs economic health.
From the advent of their legalization in 2001, these machines have been an extremely reliable source of income for the state, predictably chugging along at roughly $35 million a month in gross revenue, even as their racetrack casino slots brethren peaked and faded with competing casinos opening in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland.