After almost 2 years of work, the Chinese Taipei Baseball Assocation (CTBA) has developed a manual of basic skill training to improve game competitiveness and standard of play. Targeted for coaches who work in amateur leagues and school teams, the new manual is a guide on teaching the fundamentals of baseball to young players.

Captain Akira Abe of Ishinomaki Techincal High School, representing the 32 teams chosen to join the 84th Championship delivered an emotional players’ oath at the opening ceremony at Hanshin Koshien Studium in Nishinomiya on March 21, 2012.

Like Pakistan, Sri Lanka also made a fine start into the 10th West Asia Baseball Cup. Registering a 15-0 win over the Islamic Republic of Iran in their opening match at Punjab Stadium here on Sunday.

LAHORE, March 26: Fine performance by batters and pitchers helped Sri Lanka to earn second consecutive win, outclassing Afghanistan 14-1 on the fourth day of the 10th West Asia Baseball Cup at the Punjab Stadium here on Monday.

LAHORE, March 24: A grand slam hit by Umair Bhatti was the significant performance in Pakistan another convincing 18-0 win in the 10th West-Asia Baseball Cup against Afghanistan at the Punjab Stadium here on Saturday.

LAHORE, March 23: Pakistan made a flying start in the 10th West-Asia Baseball Cup, crushing Iran in the opening match 11-0 at the Punjab Stadium here on Friday.

The 2012 season of the CPBL (Chinese Professional Baseball League) opened this past weekend as fans showed their support for the game with large crowd at the ballparks.

Gloops, a Japanese social application provider that develops and operates social applications for mobile phones, has been named the title sponsor for Japan Opening Series 2012. Major League Baseball will open its season in Tokyo, Japan for the fourth time when the Oakland Athletics take on the Seattle Mariners in the Gloops Japan Opening Series 2012, a two-game series March 28 and 29.

The game of baseball and its fans were the true and only winners, as NPB (the japanese Major Leagues) Samurai Japan played a CPBL (Chinese Taipei professional league) All Star team for the charity game at the Tokyo Dome this past weekend. CPBL players and officials said they were honored to participate, and thankful for the chance of showing solidarity to the japanese people for the continuing relief and recovery efforts.

Samurai Japan (an All Star team of the NPB, the Japanese Major Leagues) beat the All Stars of the CPBL (the professional League in Chinese Taipei) 9-2 in a charity game played Saturday 3/10 at the Tokyo Dome in front of a 35,505 fans in attendance. The game was meant as a fundraiser for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011. A total of 12,000 tickets were give to residents from disaster struck areas.