Taiwan CPBL team Wei Chuan Dragons Quick Guide
The Dragons will spend the entire 2020 season in the CPBL minor league and move up to the major league in 2021. As a team, the Dragons still got a long way to go to be competitive in the CPBL.
But actually Dragons is the first 4 team in the first year of CPBL, here is a briefing about Dragons.
The Wei Chuan Dragons were a professional baseball team in Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League that existed between 1990 and 1999. In 2019, negotiations regarding the franchise's revival and return to the CPBL took place. The team is to play one season of minor league baseball prior to rejoining the CPBL. Wikipedia
This team had a long amateur history when its parent company, the Wei-Chuan Food Corporation, started sponsoring Chinese Culture University's baseball team in late 1970s. After these student players graduated, Wei-Chuan formed an amateur team to allow them to continue playing baseball in 1978; it was this team that later professionalized to become one of the first four teams of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL). Because of its long Amateur history, its games often drew large attendances, and games with Brother Elephants, another popular team, were often sold-out. This team took the now-demolished Taipei Municipal Baseball Stadium as its home throughout its history.
This club won CPBL championships four times in 1990, 1997, 1998, and 1999, and became the team with most CPBL championships after the 1999 season ended. After the 1999 season, Wei Chuan Food Corporation announced its decision to disband the club,[2] mainly due to:
Threats from local criminal gangs (Wei Chuan Dragons's then manager Hsu Sheng-ming was attacked in April 1999)
The financial loss brought about by CPBL's game-fixing scandals since 1996
Ting Hsin International Group became the largest (40%) shareholder of Wei Chuan Food Corporation in 1998. The new Ting Hsin management did not show high interest in supporting the baseball club.
The disbandment shocked many local fans and a procession was even raised against the decision. However the Wei Chuan Food Corporation did not change its mind. Most Wei Chuan Dragons' coaches and players later found their new homes at Sinon Bulls or Kaohsiung-Pingtung Fala. CPBL also did not fine those former Wei Chuan players and coaches who returned with Macoto Gida and First Financial Holdings Agan before the 2003 season started, because they did not leave CPBL voluntarily.
The Wei Chuan Dragons were a professional baseball team in Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League that existed between 1990 and 1999. In 2019, negotiations regarding the franchise's revival and return to the CPBL took place. The team is to play one season of minor league baseball prior to rejoining the CPBL. Wikipedia
- Taiwan Series championships: 1990, 1997, 1998, 1999
- Location: Taipei
- League championships: 1990 2nd Half; 1991 1st Half; 1996 2nd Half; 1997 2nd Half
- League: Chinese Professional Baseball League
- Founded: 1989
- Ballparks: Taipei Municipal Baseball Stadium (1989–1999), Hsinchu Baseball Field (2021–), Douliu Baseball Field (2021–)
This team had a long amateur history when its parent company, the Wei-Chuan Food Corporation, started sponsoring Chinese Culture University's baseball team in late 1970s. After these student players graduated, Wei-Chuan formed an amateur team to allow them to continue playing baseball in 1978; it was this team that later professionalized to become one of the first four teams of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL). Because of its long Amateur history, its games often drew large attendances, and games with Brother Elephants, another popular team, were often sold-out. This team took the now-demolished Taipei Municipal Baseball Stadium as its home throughout its history.
This club won CPBL championships four times in 1990, 1997, 1998, and 1999, and became the team with most CPBL championships after the 1999 season ended. After the 1999 season, Wei Chuan Food Corporation announced its decision to disband the club,[2] mainly due to:
Threats from local criminal gangs (Wei Chuan Dragons's then manager Hsu Sheng-ming was attacked in April 1999)
The financial loss brought about by CPBL's game-fixing scandals since 1996
Ting Hsin International Group became the largest (40%) shareholder of Wei Chuan Food Corporation in 1998. The new Ting Hsin management did not show high interest in supporting the baseball club.
The disbandment shocked many local fans and a procession was even raised against the decision. However the Wei Chuan Food Corporation did not change its mind. Most Wei Chuan Dragons' coaches and players later found their new homes at Sinon Bulls or Kaohsiung-Pingtung Fala. CPBL also did not fine those former Wei Chuan players and coaches who returned with Macoto Gida and First Financial Holdings Agan before the 2003 season started, because they did not leave CPBL voluntarily.
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2020/05/15 update: Taiwan CDC has approved the #CPBL's proposal to increase the number of fans from 1000 to 2000 per game. Starting May 15, kids can now sit next to their parents and boxed meals would be available to purchase at the game.
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