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The win sparked an island-wide baseball craze, and cemented baseball as a part of Taiwan's national consciousness. In fact, future winners of the Little League World Series would be treated like heroes upon their return, with grand parades in celebration. The
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carried out its own investigations and could find no evidence of this. Though there were regulations that were not followed, these regulations were not evenly applied for the international partners of the Little League, which meant that though Taiwan reorganized its domestic baseball rules to better
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The team's story is usually regarded as an underdog success story, with "colonized" Taiwan winning over the "colonizer" Japan. Adding to this was the fact that the team's championship run almost ended when they announced they were too poor to attend a match in Taipei. They had defeated a team from
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In 1963, the principal of the school found that there were high rates of truancy, attributable to the fact that students were spending time outside. These students had a particular passion for baseball. As a result, the idea was put forth to have a baseball team.
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Chiayi, but announced they would not be moving to the next stage. Donations allowed them to travel. After winning the championship of the league, they played the fateful friendly exhibition series against the team from Japan and won decisively.
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At this time, there was no professional baseball league in Taiwan, so players generally found employ through
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meet these regulations, no real penalty was applied. No serious fallout occurred for the players and serious accusations were generally considered groundless.
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