More than ten years ago, a Japanese anime "Baseball Hero" was broadcast in Shanghai. This love comic with a baseball robe has become a beautiful memory for the post-80s and post-90s to first know baseball.
More than a decade later, baseball jackets and baseball caps have become a classic clothing style, and have been popular from Europe and the United States to China.
In March this year, the Milwaukee Brewers of MLB (MLB Baseball) signed three young players born in the 2000s.
However, baseball is still a familiar and unfamiliar sport in China. China's professional baseball has not been developed for a long time and its level in international competitions is not high. Despite this, the development of Shanghai amateur baseball has become increasingly vigorous. Baseball players who have emerged from Shanghai universities have played a crucial role in the promotion of amateur baseball.
Shanghai universities have the dream of entering their own "Kaziyuan" (the final venue of the Japanese high school baseball league). In the Shanghai Amateur League, there are reasons why they get together to play basketball all year round. In the baseball stadium in Shanghai, more and more ordinary citizens are beginning to understand and integrate into the sport of baseball.
A stick, a net, a bucket of ball, a group of brothers, whether they catch the ball, hit the ball, or run to the base, this exercise that tests brain and physical strength, this team exercise that hones will, is very "ignited".
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When the evening sun shines on the baseball stadium of Songjiang University Town Shanghai Foreign Studies University , there are always a group of passionate teenagers who wear baseball uniforms, hold baseball bats and gloves, and spread their youthful sweat.
Baseball is a traditional sports competition event, with the label of "iron blood" and "unity". As a fashion trend sport, baseball caps and baseball shirts appear on more and more trendy people. What is the essence of baseball? Why do you love baseball? From Shanghai universities to amateur baseball, we will take you to find out.
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College baseball blooms everywhere
1997, Shanghai established the first college baseball team, and Shanghai team consisting of local students such as Fudan University Fudan University, Tongji, and Shangwai participated in the first National College Baseball Competition. Over the past 22 years, baseball projects have been popularized in universities across the city and have developed vigorously.
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1999, the Shanghai University Students' Sports Association officially established the Baseball and Softball Branch. To this day, a total of 16 universities in the city have formed baseball teams. Among them, the Shanghai Foreign Baseball Team has the most dazzling performance: it has formed a high-level sports team, won the 18th championship in Shanghai competitions, and won the national championship 5 times.
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Shangwai Sports Teaching Department Director Wang Jun is a witness and builder of Shangwai Baseball from scratch. "After the competition every year, the children will cry together. Some students have found jobs and have specially postponed their registration in order to participate in training and competitions. Some students have taken the master's degree in order to compete for two more years. Their love for baseball and their nostalgia for the baseball team also touched me."
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Hanwan's first generation baseball team, Wang Jun selected materials from shot put, handball, track and field and other events, and the second generation was formed on the basis of the volleyball team. To this day, the players have not only high-level students who have played baseball since childhood, but also have the best in the baseball clubs in the school. The material selection is larger and the level is higher.
"Baseball Heroes" also attracted girls from abroad. Around 2004, the Department of Physical Education officially opened softball classes. With the completion of two professional lighting baseball fields, the scene of men and women swaying batons and playing balls in the venue every day after class has become a beautiful scenery outside.
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Amateur baseball passed down from generation to generation
After graduation, they went their separate ways, but baseball has always been the unchanging complex in the hearts of these students. Not only Shanghai University, but also Shanghai college graduates such as Jiaotong University, Shanghai Sports Institute, and Huazheng have played a crucial role in promoting baseball in society.
Song Liming and Huang Wei, one graduated from Jiaotong University and the other graduated from Sports Academy. Because baseball came together, they joined amateur team in Shanghai, Pirates, and participated in the Shanghai Hurricane Baseball Amateur League all year round.
"I have never won a game in the first four years of playing basketball." Huang Wei laughed at himself, "But I still insist on playing basketball, one word, love." 12 years ago, Huang Wei watched a live broadcast of the Major League Baseball (MLB) finals for the first time, and was immediately attracted by the athlete's handsome swing and pitching movements. So he "crazy" to watch videos and do research online, and spent a month learning about baseball without a teacher. At that time, an American student happened to be the coach of the sports school baseball team, and Huang Wei had good English skills, so he became the team's translator. "I am not an athlete. I remember that I couldn't even hit the ball at the beginning, but I was not hit, but it aroused more enthusiasm."
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S000Song Liming was once the captain of the Jiaotong University baseball team. On the year of graduation, the unknown Jiaotong University baseball team stood on the finals of the city competition. "Although we know that our strength is not as good as Shangwai, after the last goal, I still regretted that I failed to stand on the championship podium."
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At first, the teams I participated in were relatively old amateur baseball teams in Shanghai. The Pirates participated in the first time, with only 10 members and not even a substitute. Huang Wei continued his "loss journey".
Finally one day, we won. "I am a catcher. Song Liming's supporter came on the court. He continued to shoot until the end of the game. At that time, we threw him to the ground and sprinkled soil on him. The feeling of happiness is more important than money."
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Nowadays, the Pirates' WeChat group has more than 100 people joined, and baseball enthusiasts from all walks of life and countries have joined in. There are also girls who love baseball spontaneously joining as cheerleaders. Huang Wei, who is the team leader, no longer has to worry about getting together to play. The team's level is getting higher and higher, and local baseball enthusiasts and foreigners are constantly joining. In the spring season last year, the team won the Group A championship and was promoted to the Super Group.
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Because of love, I love
Why do I love baseball? Song Liming said without hesitation: "Because of love, I love it." As a team sport, Song Liming learned team spirit and tempered his will in baseball events.
In the few years after graduation, he worked in an engineer position and once reached a bottleneck. After quitting his job naked, he felt confused about the future. In 2014, the sports bar Kejis Western Restaurant Sports Park, which is more than 3,000 square meters, opened in Jing'an Sports Center . It has the largest indoor baseball hitting field in the country. The mobile client operates intelligently and displays scores in real time on the screen, and provides free professional baseball equipment. One of Keggis's shareholders is a member of the Pirates, so Song Liming was invited to become the on-site coach. Every night is the busiest moment in the restaurant. After dinner and watching the ball, everyone will walk into the court with different speeds and swing a few strokes. If you meet beginners, Song Liming will teach them step by step, especially on weekends, the "bang bang" striking sound continued until the early morning. Over the years, the restaurant has a large number of regular customers, and many people have become addicted. The Pirates' mid-week strike training was carried out here, which always attracts a large number of people to watch.
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Because of baseball, Song Liming's life has become colorful again. Now he has become a corporate white-collar worker, and in his spare time, he still works as a part-time coach in a restaurant. "Huang Wei and I both hope to get older with the team until we can't play," said Song Liming.
The night Kejith talked to Song Liming, it was not his turn to go to work.But from time to time, people come to say hello and ask him to give him some guidance. Those are old customers. They have become baseball lovers from baseball "novice" and can be with a group of like-minded friends every day. Is there anything better than this?
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Baseball practice precautions
Baseball is a ball sports that is characterized by playing ball with a ball with team and confrontation. The number of players in the game is at least 9. Baseball players are divided into offense and defense. They use bats and gloves to play in a right-angle fan-shaped baseball field. During the game, the two teams take turns to attack and defend: when the offensive player successfully runs back to home base, he can score 1 point. There were 9 innings in the game, and the team with high scores won. At the end of the 9th game, both sides will enter the extended game until the winner is decided.
The 1992 Barcelona Olympics began, and baseball became an official competition event, but the 2012 London Olympics began to no longer be a competition event. In the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, baseball returned to the Olympic family.
Offensive tactics: including batting, running base and sliding base , etc., are the main means of scoring.
Defensive tactics: including catch, pass, pitch, touch, block and chase.
Shanghai Baseball Stadium List
Outdoor Professional Baseball Stadium
■ Shanghai International Studies University
( Songjiang Campus)
Songjiang District No. 1550 Wenxiang Road, Wenxiang Road,
■ Shanghai East China University of Political Science and Law (
Songjiang Campus)
No. 555 Longyuan Road, Songjiang District
Indoor Professional Baseball Stadium
■ Kaijisi Western Restaurant Sports Park
3rd Floor, Jing'an Sports Center, No. 428 Jiangning Road,
■ Locke Park (Wuzhong Store)
Wuzhong Road, 1218
■ Double Z Baseball Sports Bar
0 ■ 3rd Floor, Mayflower Square, No. 488 Zhijiang West Road,
(Comprehensive Pictures in the article)
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Author | Tao Xingying
Edit | Huang Jiaqi
Design | Shao Xiaoyan
