BEIJING -- Selling baseball in China won't be easy or cheap. Of course, the rewards in a country with 1.3 billion people could be enormous. By The Associated Press BEIJING — Selling baseball in China ...

Internet giant Tencent has reached an agreement with Major League Baseball to live stream games and highlight programs in China. Under terms of the multi-year agreement, Tencent will live-stream 125 ...

Fun fact: One of the top TV shows in China is called “Boyhood” and it’s centered around baseball. The stars of the show, a famous Chinese boy band named The TFBoys, are trying to turn around a ...

BEIJING — When Jim Lefebvre was asked to set the foundation for a national baseball program in China, there was never any doubt it was just a temporary job. “It was a one-shot deal,” the former Los ...

There was a moment when Leon Xie was ready to admit that he'd made a mistake. He had been the director of sponsorship for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, an important man responsible for the promotion of ...

LAS VEGAS—What was the Commissioner of Major League Baseball doing at the world’s largest tech trade show? Rob Manfred attended CES to announce a three-year strategic partnership between the league ...

A new 10-year partnership between Major League Baseball and Beijing Enterprises Real-Estate Group Ltd. (BEREGL) will see more than 20 baseball development facilities being built in China, and with it, ...

As the 2017 World Baseball Classic is set to begin, Team China is keeping expectations low. “We come in here with the thought that we need to win a game,” manager John McLaren told MLB.com in January.

Monday night / early Tuesday morning, while you were most likely fast asleep with an automatic berth in the 2017 World Baseball Classic on the line, China rallied in the bottom of the eighth with five ...

BEIJING — Leadoff batter Peng Zixuan has been playing baseball all of four months, and his stance is a bit wobbly. But after a few swings, he smacks an infield single past the mound and eventually ...

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. Since 1983, Kim Karsh has helped baseball teams deal with an inconvenient fact of the modern economy: Almost everything you need to play America’s ...