1in the middle of 992, Shengbao Giants baseball team, Guo Jun Jianshe baseball team and Times Eagle team, which belonged to amateur baseball teams, applied to join China Professional Baseball, the only professional baseball league in Taiwan Province Province at that time, but Shengbao Giants was later dissuaded before the judging meeting, and the other two teams formally joined China Professional Baseball through the judging meeting; In the following years, due to multiple factors such as entry threshold and royalties, Shengbao could not join as scheduled, so in 1995, a new professional baseball league was formed.
In addition, Time TV, which originally owned the right to broadcast the China professional baseball game, lost the right to broadcast the China professional baseball game in the eight to ten years bidding in August 1995, and was defeated by Weilai TV Network with NT$1500 million and RMB 600 million. Fu Shengchao, then chairman of Times, refused to accept this result, so he cooperated with Chen Shengsong, chairman of Shengbao, and announced the establishment of Naluwan Co., Ltd. on 1995 12 1, thus forming the second professional baseball league in Taiwan Province Province-the Major League of Taiwan Province Province.
1996 65438+1On October 20th, the major leagues of Taiwan Province Province started training at the baseball stadium in St. Paul's Linkou. On June 8th, kloc-0/9961announced that the leagues belonged to four teams: Taipei Sun, Taichung King Kong, Jianan Warriors and Gaoping Leigong.
Development and dilemma
The first official major league game in Taiwan Province Province started at 6: 30pm on February 28th at the baseball stadium in Chiayi County. 1997. The opening match is Taipei Suns versus Jian 'an Warriors. The starting pitchers sent by the two teams are Ping Huang Yang, the Golden Arm Man, and Chen Yixin, the Flying Knife Man. In the end, the Suns beat the Warriors 6-2, and MVP hit the league's first home run in three innings.
1In the middle of 1997, the Chinese professional baseball broke out in which players signed gambling cases and had a holiday ball, which led to a sharp decline in the overall professional baseball market in Taiwan Province Province, and the newly established Major League in Taiwan Province Province was also affected. It turns out that Major League Baseball in Taiwan Province Province has no fan base, so many star players of professional baseball in China were founded in the early days. Although many fans came to watch the game because of novelty, the fancy propaganda strategy obviously failed to retain most fans, and the fans' general distrust of professional baseball players after the gambling case broke out made the operation worse.
Dissolution and subsequent trends
After several years of dismal operation, on June 26th, 2002, 165438+ Chen Shengsong, chairman of Naluwan Professional Baseball Company, signed a merger agreement with China Professional Baseball League, and started the merger with China Professional Baseball on the premise that the four teams were reduced to two teams, one company and one team. On February 30th, the same year, 12, the temporary general meeting of major leagues in Taiwan Province Province passed the resolution to dissolve the alliance.
On June 5438+1October 65438+March, 2003, Major League Baseball of Taiwan Province Province and Major League Baseball of China signed a merger agreement witnessed by government units. Taiwan Province Major League Team Taipei Suns and Gaoping Leigong Team merged into "King Kong Team", while Taichung King Kong Team and Jiaan Warriors merged into "Sun Team" and joined the merged China Professional Baseball Team, respectively, and Taiwan Province Major League officially entered history.
After the dissolution of the Major League of Taiwan Province Province, the King Kong Team and the Suns Team were sponsored by First Financial Holdings and Chengtai Bank respectively, becoming the First King Kong Team and Chengtai Suns Team. In 2004, Zhengtai Bank renamed Zhengtai Suns Team as Zhengtai Cobra Team, and won the first season championship in the history of China professional baseball team in the first half of 2005. First King Kong also changed its team name to Laxin Bear under Laxin's takeover, and won the professional baseball championship in China in the first half of 2006. In the championship, he defeated the United Lions 4-0 and won the first championship in the history of China's professional baseball team. Chengtai Cobra won the second championship in the team history in the first half of 2007.