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Baseball a Hit in China
Last week was a great time for Chinese baseball fans. The Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres played two exhibition games in Wukesong Stadium in Beijing, the capital of China.
The games were part of a Major League Baseball ambassador tour. The tour is part of a plan to introduce the sport to fans in China. There are over 1.3 billion people in that country, but most of them don't know anything about baseball. While the Chinese learned about baseball, the players learned about China.
Before the games, the teams visited the Great Wall of China. The Great Wall is over 4,000 miles long. It was started about 2,500 years ago and took hundreds of years to build.
In addition to sightseeing, the Padres held a baseball clinic for kids in Beijing. Pitchers Heath Bell and Justin Germano watched kids throw and gave them some pointers. First baseman Adrian Gonzalez showed some young hitters how to stand and swing at the ball.
And what about the games? The first one ended in a 3-3 tie and the Padres captured the other one winning 6 to 3.The trip went a long way toward making baseball better known in China. Who knows, maybe one day the World Series will actually have a team from Beijing!
I'm Lucy and that's what happened in sports this week!
Photo: AP
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