USA & Chinese Taipei Baseball Look to Reintroduce International Friendship Series

October 31, 2013

USA Baseball together with the Chinese Taipei Baseball Association announced today that their Collegiate National Team programs will compete in an international friendship series in the U.S. for the first time since 2008.

In 2010, the two countries resumed friendship series play at the collegiate level with Team USA traveling to Taipei, Taiwan for a four-game series — the two nations split the set, 2-2.

The 2014 edition will see the Chinese Taipei Collegiate National Team travel to the United States, and feature games across at least three locations in North Carolina from July 1-5.

“We are extremely excited to host the Chinese Taipei National Team this year,” said USA Baseball Executive Director/CEO, Paul Seiler. “Our countries share a unique passion and enthusiasm for the game of baseball. In recent years our amateur national teams have traveled to Taiwan for international competitions, and we are excited to serve as gracious hosts in 2014.”

“The Chinese Taipei Baseball Association appreciates and values the friendship that we enjoy with USA Baseball,” said Richard Lin, Secretary General of the Chinese Taipei Baseball Association. “Re-establishing our yearly exchange with the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team is an important part of our senior baseball program’s development.”

The series will be the first in the U.S., between the two baseball-rich countries since the home team swept a six-game series in 2008, held across four locations in North Carolina and South Carolina — including a trio of games at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, N.C., and the series finale at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, N.C.