China Baseball League Folds
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Re: China Baseball League Folds
[ Author: westbaystars | Posted: Sep 11, 2012 9:21 AM
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Thank you for that report.
My impression was that SoftBank and other Japanese teams/companies were trying to make inroads into China by helping to jump start the China Baseball League (CBL). Then Major League Baseball (MLB) came striding in with their global ambitions, pushing the grass roots Japanese sponsors out.
The press releases about CBL coming out of MLB had long disturbed me as I saw more rhetoric along the lines of mining for gems than developing a self-sufficient league.
My impression was that SoftBank and other Japanese teams/companies were trying to make inroads into China by helping to jump start the China Baseball League (CBL). Then Major League Baseball (MLB) came striding in with their global ambitions, pushing the grass roots Japanese sponsors out.
The press releases about CBL coming out of MLB had long disturbed me as I saw more rhetoric along the lines of mining for gems than developing a self-sufficient league.
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