Late in April (2025) I had my first experience of attending a baseball game in Taiwan in a stadium — at the glamorous Taipei Dome, no less. It was a matchup between two of Taiwan’s strongest professional baseball clubs: the Wei Chuan Dragons and the Chinatrust Brothers. It has already been some five days out from that event, but I still feel awed by the encounter. This was actually only the second time in my life I have ever attended a stadium game. My first took place when I was maybe 10 years old and my best friend’s dad took me along with their family to see a game at the now-demolished Shea Stadium. That one time was enough to make me a lifelong fan of the New York Mets. But baseball fandom is a variant expression of love, and love adopts many forms that embrace different people differently. And thanks to the friend who gifted me the ticket to last week’s game in Taipei, I am now a dedicated fan of yet another team. Well, two other teams. OK, maybe three other teams in addition...
The sometimes lunatic and often unreasonable rants of an American "big nose" living in Taiwan.