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Out of Left Field: The Making of the Chinese Baseball Team

2008
55m
Documentary
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Cast

Director

Tom Jennings

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Synopsis

Four years prior to the 2008 Olympic Games the Chinese government went to Major League Baseball with a problem. The baseball team that would represent their country in the Beijing Olympics was not too good at America's favorite pastime. In response, MLB gave the Chinese team two American coaches to help teach them to become contenders. This is a story of two divergent nations brought together on a very unique field of dreams.

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