NEW YORK ” The Yankees and Mariners have become the first major league teams to sign Chinese players, so could baseball’s version of NBA superstar Yao Ming be on deck? Unlikely, for reasons that are ...

Baseball is full of stories of triumph and surprises, and the arrival of Mingxuan Zhang to the Pittsburgh Pirates is one of them. This right-handed pitcher from China not only stands out for his ...

Major League Baseball is tapping into the Chinese market in a big way. On Tuesday, it announced a deal with China’s biggest tech company, Tencent, to stream 125 games this season. Tencent boasts more ...

BEIJING — In the run-up to the Olympics, Beijing citizens were asked to curtail their spitting, which is a cultural quirk. It turns out that spitting is the country’s only highly-developed baseball ...

Between innings at Zhongshan Park Baseball Field, in southern China’s tech hub Shenzhen, the fight songs took over. Each team had its own pun-heavy lyrics set to pop hooks, and the stands sang back on ...

BEIJING -- When Jim Small eyes China, he dreams big: seventh-inning stretches in Shanghai, home runs in Harbin, scouts scouring Suzhou for the new Sammy Sosa. In short, baseball -- pure, old-fashioned ...

Chinese Taipei is on the board at the 2023 World Baseball Classic, winning a big game against Italy -- that went back and forth -- 11-7. But I want to talk about the fans of that team. They are ...