Nestor Aparicio chronicles the first full day in China with Cal Ripken. Today, Ripken and B.J. Surhoff visit the Olympic Baseball facility in Beijing. Cal discusses his lifelong love of baseball!
Wrong! Baseball was thrown out of the olympics because mlb refused to put their star players in it, just college or unwanted minor leaguers, unlike the NBA and NHL who put their best in.
Baseball has been thrown out of the olympics as it is is not a global sport. The chinese seem to like football and basketball, ohh and table tennis [ping pong]. Baseball has lost popularity in japan and has never got going in china, I doubt it ever will.
Number two sport, football is number one now.
warriorprince1010 3 years ago
How his baseball lost popularity in japan when it is still the number one sport over there?.
gbenay 3 years ago
It is more and more popular in China now.
sonofmanchu 3 years ago
Wrong! Baseball was thrown out of the olympics because mlb refused to put their star players in it, just college or unwanted minor leaguers, unlike the NBA and NHL who put their best in.
Dimaggio369 3 years ago
7:00min - 8:10min Cal kept pitching his ideas and chinese guy wasn't paying him any attention!
mtmt88 4 years ago
Baseball has been thrown out of the olympics as it is is not a global sport. The chinese seem to like football and basketball, ohh and table tennis [ping pong]. Baseball has lost popularity in japan and has never got going in china, I doubt it ever will.
warriorprince1010 4 years ago
hope baseball can become popular in china. espeically for yound people.
gu1981china 4 years ago 2