S2-E12 - "The National Game" -- Taiwan Falls in and out of Love with Baseball

After the Americans introduced baseball to Japan in the late 19th
century, Japan took the game John Ross might call "a corruption
of cricket" to their new colonial possession, where it became a
hit. Surviving -- somewhat surprisingly -- the arrival of the
Nationalists in 1949, baseball was officially ignored for the
most part, which helped usher in a "Golden Age'' for the game and
its rise to the status of "national game." But harnessed for
political and material gain, baseball would be tarnished by a
series of scandals that left fans unhappy and out of the stands.
In the 2020s, however, there are signs of a revival... Could the
"Guo Qiu" be making a comeback?