NEW YORK ” The Yankees and Mariners have become the first major league teams to sign Chinese players, so could baseball’s version of NBA superstar Yao Ming be on deck? Unlikely, for reasons that are ...

Major League Baseball is tapping into the Chinese market in a big way. On Tuesday, it announced a deal with China’s biggest tech company, Tencent, to stream 125 games this season. Tencent boasts more ...

Baseball fans are about to be spoiled. Spring training is right around the corner and the World Baseball Classic is returning in March. Three years ago, we witnessed some of the purest, most electric ...

Between innings at Zhongshan Park Baseball Field, in southern China’s tech hub Shenzhen, the fight songs took over. Each team had its own pun-heavy lyrics set to pop hooks, and the stands sang back on ...

A weekend appearance by Taiwan’s Premier Cho Jung-tai at Tokyo Dome, where he cheered on his island’s team at the World Baseball Classic, has created a geopolitical storm. But the real significance of ...

Shohei Ohtani's offensive exploits on Friday helped lead Japan to a 13-0 win over Chinese Taipei in its opening game of the 2026 World Baseball Classic. The reigning NL MVP continued doing what he ...

You’ve heard it before, thousands and thousands of times probably. Now you’re going to hear it again: Baseball is a dying sport. They can inflate bases to the size of beach balls, start every inning ...