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33-398: TML may refer to: Sport [ edit ] Taiwan Major League , former baseball league Toronto Maple Leafs , Canadian ice hockey team Transportation [ edit ] Tamale International Airport , northern Ghana Tata Motors Limited , an Indian automotive company TransManche Link , Channel Tunnel builder Tuen Ma Line ,

66-577: A different name from different sponsors, while the home city and mascot remained the same. Also, players were sometimes shuffled after a season to "balance each teams' strength"; all TML players' were directly signed by the Naluwan Corporation and not the team they played for. These circumstances prevented the TML from gaining popularity comparable to the CPBL, and the TML also had difficulty in opening new markets in

99-455: A major popularity decline. The China Times Eagles became defunct after the 1997 season. The Wei Chuan Dragons and Mercuries Tigers also became defunct after the 1999 season, prior to which the Dragons had won all championships from 1997 to 1999. In 1997, the newly founded Taiwan Major League began to compete with the CPBL. The two leagues were often competing with each other, but eventually,

132-631: A professional league within a few years. Throughout 1988 and 1989, Hung visited numerous Taiwanese businesses, trying to convince them to form professional baseball clubs. Most of his requests were rejected, but Wei Chuan Corporation , Mercuries Chain Stores , and Uni-President Corporation all supported the idea and formed teams. The Chinese Professional Baseball League was established on October 23, 1989, with Hung Teng-sheng acting as secretary-general. Because of his contribution to professional baseball in Taiwan, Hung

165-582: A rail line in Hong Kong Other meanings [ edit ] TML Entertainment , record label TransducerML , transducer markup language Trinidad Muslim League, operating schools in Trinidad and Tobago; see List of schools in Trinidad and Tobago § Run by the TML Islamic Board Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

198-592: A similar practice seen in Japan's NPB and South Korea's KBO . Each team manages a regional market with a home city, but does not play its games exclusively in that market. Other than the home cities, regular season games are also held in Hsinchu , Douliu , Chiayi , Pingtung , Luodong , Hualien , and Taitung with less frequency. Each season spans from March to October, with a one-week all-star break in June or July, which separates

231-478: Is sometimes referred to as the "Father of the CPBL." Chung Meng-shun (鍾孟舜) designed every original logo of the four founding teams. With the popularity rise in the first few years, the Jungo Bears and China Times Eagles joined in 1993. The Koos Group Whales joined in 1997. The league consisted of seven teams in the 1997 season which is the maximum in CPBL history. The Black Eagles Incident in 1997 resulted in

264-570: Is the top-tier professional baseball league in Taiwan . The league was established in 1989 and played the first season in 1990. CPBL eventually absorbed the competing Taiwan Major League in 2003. As of the 2024 season, the CPBL consists of six organizations, all of which have teams in the main league and farm league. The CPBL consists of Major ( Chinese : 一軍 ; lit. 'first/primary corps') and, since 2006, Minor ( Chinese : 二軍 ; lit. 'second/reserve corps') leagues, with

297-662: The COVID-19 pandemic , the opening day of the 31st CPBL season on March 14 was delayed. It was originally brought earlier compared to previous seasons to accommodate the final qualifying tournament of 2021 Tokyo Olympics . On 1 April, the CPBL announced that the season would begin from 11 April as the Rakuten Monkeys hosted the Chinatrust Brothers with the games being playing without live fans. This received international coverage because other major baseball leagues such as

330-718: The MLB in North America , the NPB in Japan , and the KBO in South Korea , which were still severely impacted by the virus outbreak were unable to confirm the dates of their respective season openings. The annual CPBL All-Star Game was cancelled for the first time to accommodate to the compact schedule. The name "Chinese Professional Baseball League" has attracted debate among Taiwanese baseball fans. Owing to

363-483: The WBSC Europe ( European Champion Cup ). A typical monthly salary for a foreign player is in between 25,000 and 50,000 USD , these positions are normally filled by AA, AAA, or Japanese minor leaguers. The number of foreign players allowed on a team's roster is limited to four. Of the four players only three are allowed to be activated on the major league roster, the remaining foreign player can practice and prepare with

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396-539: The 1970s and 1980s. The national baseball team also performed exceptionally well in many international competitions. However, the development of baseball in Taiwan was limited due to the lack of a professional league, and therefore many players were reluctant to commit to the sport. The idea of forming a professional baseball league in Taiwan was first suggested by local Brother Hotel 's chairman Hung Teng-sheng (洪騰勝). He formed his amateur Brother Hotel baseball team in 1984, and intended to professionalize his team and form

429-534: The CPBL in 1997. Chiu therefore established TML in December 1995 in anticipation to maintain advertisement revenue. The TML's other keyman was local Sampo Corporation (聲寶企業)'s then chairman Chen Sheng-tian(陳盛沺); his amateur baseball team the Sampo Giants had been requesting to join the CPBL since 1992, but was repeatedly rejected by the CPBL for unexplained reasons. Chen later decided to join forces with Chiu and turned

462-493: The Minor league team rosters consist of developmental and injury-recovering players. CPBL TV is CPBL's official paid live-streaming and video-on-demand platform. It receives signals from each team's broadcasting partners and is available worldwide. Baseball was first introduced to Taiwan during Japanese rule , and gained popularity when the national little league baseball teams won numerous Little League World Series championships in

495-514: The Sampo Giants into Taipei Gida , and sponsored this team until the end of 2000, when he realized there was no possibility for the TML to make a profit. TML's first historical game was played by the visiting Taipei Gida and Chiayi-Tainan Luka at Chiayi County Baseball Stadium on February 28, 1997. Throughout the TML's history, the TML, often with considerable incentives, had been attracting active CPBL players to break their CPBL contracts and join

528-531: The TML merged with the CPBL. In May 2019, Commissioner John Wu announced that CPBL had reached agreement with Ting Hsin International Group to join the league by reactivating a former team, the Wei Chuan Dragons . The Dragons participated in the minor league in 2020, and returned to the major league in 2021. After Tsai Chi-chang became commissioner in 2021, he proposed that Kaohsiung serve as

561-700: The TML's history, all four teams were directly owned and managed by the Naluwan Corporation , a subsidiary of the TVBS media group, both of which were then chaired by Chiu Fu-sheng. TVBS held the broadcasting rights for CPBL games from 1993 to 1996 during the CPBL's heyday, but lost them in August 1995 to Videoland Television Network , a subsidiary of the Koos Group , whose baseball team the Koos Group Whales later joined

594-419: The TML. Nearly 30 CPBL players, both Taiwanese and foreign, broke from the CPBL and joined the TML. The TML also had a much looser policy on international players, such as allowing a team to register eleven international players in the 1997 season and seven in the 1998 season. Chiu annually leased the teams' logos and naming rights to different sponsors for advertising purposes, so every year each team would bear

627-521: The aftermath of the Black Eagles Incident . In January 2003, Chiu finally agreed to a government-brokered merger with CPBL, and reorganized his four teams to two. Chiu also resigned from his chairperson position in TVBS. President Chen Shui-bian , who acted as the middle person in the merger agreement, asked First Financial Holdings to purchase one of the teams , while Macoto Bank voluntarily took over

660-585: The ambiguous political status of Taiwan and the Nagoya Resolution , the Republic of China (Taiwan) was forced to use the name of " Chinese Taipei " under pressure from the People's Republic of China . Many have called to for the name of CPBL be changed, with suggestions including the replacement of “Chinese” with “Taiwan”, “Formosa” or “Chunghwa”. In the 2018 Taiwanese referendum , CPBL officials publicly rejected

693-531: The back of their jerseys using the Latin alphabet . Some teams now have adopted Latin alphabet jerseys, a trend that has picked up in recent years. The Fubon Guardians only have uniforms with such, and the other teams are adopting such jerseys on occasion. The CPBL Minor League took shape in late 2003 as a result of cooperation with Chinese Taipei Baseball Association . Alternative service draftees, players deemed eligible to complete their national service obligation in

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726-439: The field of baseball, were sent to the CPBL member organizations to fill their roster. There are currently 6 minor league teams, each plays about 80 games annually. Similar to the NPB 's minor leagues, the minor league teams are each owned by CPBL member clubs as reserve teams rather than independent organizations. Titles by teams as of the end of the 2024 CPBL season: The Taiwan Series was not held in 1992, 1994 and 1995 because

759-478: The location for a new team since it was the only major city in Taiwan without a CPBL team at the time. In February 2022, Tsai announced that the sixth team would either be formed by Chunghwa Telecom or Taiwan Steel Group . It was later announced that the expansion team would be by Taiwan Steel Group. The proposed team name is TSG Hawks , and their home field would be Chengcing Lake Stadium in Kaohsiung. Due to

792-525: The merger took place, the two former TML teams changed their mascots to meet the standard CPBL practice. Other than the member teams' home cities, games were also held in minor cities, although at a less frequently. The TML also suggested a Taiwan championship series between the TML and the CPBL, but was rebuffed. Chinese Professional Baseball League#The Black Eagles Incident The Chinese Professional Baseball League ( CPBL ; Chinese : 中華職業棒球大聯盟 ; pinyin : Zhōnghuá Zhíyè Bàngqiú Dàliánméng )

825-485: The naming of China Airlines and CPBL. A New Power Party survey showed that 62% of Taiwanese people support changing the name of the league to distinguish itself from Chinese baseball and avoid confusion. In January 2021, CPBL commissioner Tsai Chi-chang agreed that spectators should be made aware that the league was being played in Taiwan and not China, but that a name change was not a top priority. All teams are owned by and named after large Taiwanese corporations,

858-438: The other . Before the CPBL's 2003 season started, the CPBL decided to fine each former "traitor", or those who broke their contracts with the CPBL, who returned with the former TML teams because of their previous contract-breaking. Both Macoto Bank and First Financial Holdings originally refused to pay the fine, and the players were banned from playing in the 2003 season. In 2004, Macoto Bank and La New Corporation , who purchased

891-405: The players' names and are generally chosen as terms meant to convey strength or might. One example is Jeff Andra , whose epithet is Feiyong (飛勇) — meaning, literally, a flying brave man. Recently however, most foreign players are just simply given a direct Chinese transcription . Some players (mostly foreign players) have now adopted the custom in the rest of the world by placing their surnames on

924-413: The proposal for Taiwan to compete as "Taiwan" in the 2020 Summer Olympics , for fear that Taiwanese athletes may risk losing eligibility. The league received criticism for holding this stance while selling official merchandise that said "Team Taiwan." In April 2020, Premier Su Tseng-chang said that in order to elevate Taiwan's visibility in the world, there was a need to distinguish Taiwan from China in

957-401: The season into first and second half-seasons. Playoffs are held in late October or early November, with three teams competing in two rounds. A team may qualify for playoffs either by winning a half-season title, or be awarded a wild card berth by attaining the highest place in the seasonal ranks. If a team wins a half-season title, it will not be considered in the seasonal ranks when the winner of

990-446: The team from First Financial Holdings, gave in to CPBL demands and paid the fine by adding extra restrictions in these players' contracts. The ban was subsequently lifted. The mascots Agan, Fala, Gida and Luka originated from Taiwanese aboriginal symbols that mean suns, robots, braves, and thunder gods respectively. This is contrary to the standard practice of the CPBL, whose member organization all chose animals as their mascots. When

1023-400: The team or play in the minors. A foreign player, once sent to the minor league team, must wait a week before being allowed to be recalled to the major league. Foreign players, from regions other than Japan and South Korea, are given Chinese epithets to increase familiarity with Taiwanese fans. These epithets, usually two to three characters in length, are generally loose transliterations of

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1089-498: The wild card is being decided. If both half seasons were won by the same team, another wild card berth will be given through the same mechanism after the first berth has been awarded Between 2005 and 2013, the champion team will represent Taiwan in the Asia Series to compete with other champion teams from Nippon Professional Baseball ( Japan Series ), KBO League ( Korean Series ), Australian Baseball League ( Claxton Shield ), and

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