今天紐約時報的網路首頁飄揚著台灣的國旗與王建民呢!!
整個開心加感動~~~~
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Children in Taiwan watching Chien-Ming Wang pitch last month.
The 12-hour time difference between New York and Taiwan does not deter many
Taiwanese from tuning in.
By KEITH BRADSHER
Published: October 3, 2006
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Sept. 27 — The most popular number on shirts here these days is 40, the number on pitcher Chien-Ming Wang’s Yankees jersey. When a local convenience store chain sold a limited edition of subway fare cards bearing Wang’s picture, people lined up for two days, fights broke out and the police had to be called.
Lawmakers forgave a colleague who fell asleep during a meeting after he explained that, like many Taiwanese, he had stayed up to watch a Yankees game that was shown live in the middle of the night here. Yankees games have some of the highest ratings on Taiwanese television, even for broadcasts that start at 1 a.m. because of the 12-hour time difference.
It is all part of Wang mania. Pitchers Hideo Nomo of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Hideki Irabu of the Yankees made Major League Baseball a hit in Japan in the mid-1990’s, and Yankees left fielder Hideki Matsui has helped extend that run. Center Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets popularized the National Basketball Association in China in 2002. Now, Wang has turned America’s pastime, already fairly popular here, into Taiwan’s passion.
At a time of street protests and even brawls between supporters and critics of President Chen Shui-bian, supporting Wang is one of the few things that Taiwanese from across the political spectrum can agree on. Seemingly everyone, from President Chen to schoolchildren, is making plans to watch on television when Wang pitches in the Yankees’ first playoff game on Tuesday.
“He’s like our national hero, he’s like the only good thing going on for us,” said Hsiao Bi-Khim, a senior lawmaker from the president’s Democratic Progressive Party, who said he hopes to fly to the United States to watch Wang pitch in at least one postseason game.
The best-known sports bar here now looks as if it sits a block from Yankee Stadium instead of 7,800 miles away.
A display case at the entrance holds a Yankees jersey, a pennant and a baseball cap, all signed by Wang. Next along the wall comes a huge photo of him pitching against the Los Angeles Angels in last year’s playoffs. Yankees games are played and replayed on a wide-screen television in the middle of the bar. An auction of Wang memorabilia in late August saw a baseball card of him fetch almost $3,000.
The bar’s emphasis on all things Wang is just part of the craze that has swept Taiwan this season, turning an island better known in baseball circles for its Little League teams into a hotbed of Yankees worshipers. Wang spent his boyhood in southern Taiwan and attended a baseball-powerhouse high school here in the capital in northern Taiwan, so his popularity spans the island.
整個開心加感動~~~~
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Children in Taiwan watching Chien-Ming Wang pitch last month.
The 12-hour time difference between New York and Taiwan does not deter many
Taiwanese from tuning in.
By KEITH BRADSHER
Published: October 3, 2006
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Sept. 27 — The most popular number on shirts here these days is 40, the number on pitcher Chien-Ming Wang’s Yankees jersey. When a local convenience store chain sold a limited edition of subway fare cards bearing Wang’s picture, people lined up for two days, fights broke out and the police had to be called.
Lawmakers forgave a colleague who fell asleep during a meeting after he explained that, like many Taiwanese, he had stayed up to watch a Yankees game that was shown live in the middle of the night here. Yankees games have some of the highest ratings on Taiwanese television, even for broadcasts that start at 1 a.m. because of the 12-hour time difference.
It is all part of Wang mania. Pitchers Hideo Nomo of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Hideki Irabu of the Yankees made Major League Baseball a hit in Japan in the mid-1990’s, and Yankees left fielder Hideki Matsui has helped extend that run. Center Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets popularized the National Basketball Association in China in 2002. Now, Wang has turned America’s pastime, already fairly popular here, into Taiwan’s passion.
At a time of street protests and even brawls between supporters and critics of President Chen Shui-bian, supporting Wang is one of the few things that Taiwanese from across the political spectrum can agree on. Seemingly everyone, from President Chen to schoolchildren, is making plans to watch on television when Wang pitches in the Yankees’ first playoff game on Tuesday.
“He’s like our national hero, he’s like the only good thing going on for us,” said Hsiao Bi-Khim, a senior lawmaker from the president’s Democratic Progressive Party, who said he hopes to fly to the United States to watch Wang pitch in at least one postseason game.
The best-known sports bar here now looks as if it sits a block from Yankee Stadium instead of 7,800 miles away.
A display case at the entrance holds a Yankees jersey, a pennant and a baseball cap, all signed by Wang. Next along the wall comes a huge photo of him pitching against the Los Angeles Angels in last year’s playoffs. Yankees games are played and replayed on a wide-screen television in the middle of the bar. An auction of Wang memorabilia in late August saw a baseball card of him fetch almost $3,000.
The bar’s emphasis on all things Wang is just part of the craze that has swept Taiwan this season, turning an island better known in baseball circles for its Little League teams into a hotbed of Yankees worshipers. Wang spent his boyhood in southern Taiwan and attended a baseball-powerhouse high school here in the capital in northern Taiwan, so his popularity spans the island.
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我在紐約上課時有presentation這個報導哦！我還有剪下來哦，from New York Times
一起支持王小民 :)
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