Sunday, July 6, 2008

Teaching Baseball as a Second Language in China

Teaching Baseball as a Second Language in China

nytimes.com — In the 1960s, Mao Zedong banned baseball in China because of its Western roots. Even after his death in 1976, the sport never caught on. And yet, because of the marketing potential of the country’s 1.3 billion people, Major League Baseball has invested tens of millions of dollars into seeding the sport in China, league officials said

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