Deeming baseball a “bourgeois indulgence for the rich,” Mao Zedong, China’s longtime communist leader, banned the game in 1966 during his Cultural Revolution. Fifty years later, the Baltimore Orioles are in the leadoff spot for mounting effort by Major League Baseball to revive the game there. Read more here.
Orioles First at MLB Bat in China
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