Founded: 1979
Headquarters: Beijing
IBAF Member since: 1981

President: HU Jianguo
Secretary-General: SHEN Wei

Add: 5 Tiyuguan Road, Beijing 100763, China
Tel: (86-10) 85826002/ 6001
Fax: (86-10) 85825994
E-mail: cga_cra@263.net

Brief introduction:
The first Chinese baseball team on record was the Chinese Baseball Team organized by the famous engineer Zhan Tianyou during his study at Yale University in 1877-1881. Later, baseball was brought to China by returned overseas Chinese and students from America and Japan. At about the same time, baseball was included in the PE (physical education) course in missionary schools in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin, Beijing, etc.
In 1895 a baseball team was formed in Beijing Huiwen Academy. The first baseball match in China was played between Beijing Huiwen Academy and Tongzhou Xiehe Academy in 1907.
Baseball was also included in the Far East Games initiated by China, Japan and the Philippines in 1913, to which China sent its teams on many occasions. In the baseball competition of the national sports meets held before the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, most players were students.
At the First National Games in 1959, baseball as an official event drew teams from 23 provinces and municipalities from across the country.
The Chinese Baseball League was initiated in April 2003, with only four teams participating, namely Guangdong, Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin.

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