In 1998, the Taiwan team won the runner-up in the Koshien Asian Youth Championship in Japan.

(File photo, provided by Liu Mingguang)

[Reporter Luo Zhipeng/Taipei Report] Li Chenxun, a third-year right-hander of the national sports team, signed a contract with the San Francisco Giants for US$650,000 yesterday, becoming the last piece of the jigsaw puzzle for all 20 national players in the 2019 U18 World Cup champion generation to enter professional baseball. A youth baseball national team, a record for all national players to play professional baseball.

Looking through the history, there is also a national team of youth baseball in the history of Taiwan baseball, which almost wrote the record of "all-member professional baseball". Among the national players, 17 people entered the professional baseball in the end. Only Huaxing Middle School infielder Qiu Shijie did not play professional baseball.

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There were 17 heroes in the Asian Youth Championship, including pitchers Wang Jianmin, Guo Hongzhi, Zhang Zhijia, Shen Yujie, Wang Guojin, catchers Gao Zhigang, Chen Kefan, infielders Wang Shihua, Ji Junlin, Wang Yimin, Shi Jindian, Gao Wei, Huang Xiaowei, outfielders Ye Changlong, Zhang Jianming, Yu Xianming and Yang Ruizhi both entered the professional baseball later, and Wang Jianmin and Guo Hongzhi even voted for the major leagues in one fell swoop.

What I want to emphasize is that Taiwan’s National Youth Baseball National Team has won the world championship and all members have entered professional baseball. It is extremely difficult to meet these two conditions. The 2019 U18 champion generation has achieved it, and it has also set up obstacles that are difficult for younger generations to overcome.

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