Major League Baseball plans to open office in China within a month to help promote the game among the 1.3 billion Chinese.
Bob DuPuy, baseball's chief operating officer, said there are plans to open a regular season in Beijing, probably prior to the 2008 Olympics:
"Nothing has been discussed or formulated yet," he said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. "It depends upon facility preparedness, sponsor availability, government (China) support, industry (club) support, MLBPA support, television interest and a lot of things falling into place."
Half a century after Chairman Mao banned baseball in China, calling it a bourgeois indulgence of the rich, we could have another billion baseball fans to help complain about America's pastime.
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