Baseball came to Taiwan over a hundred years ago and has been loved ever since. Children play it in school yards, on patches of grass, even in the street with rolled-up paper balls and rolled-up newspapers as bats. Most professional players say they started playing the same way - just kids and a ball.
Some of the most famous moments in Taiwanese baseball involve a tiny town called Hongye, high in the mountains. In the 1960s, a team of children from Hongye - some of them in shoes, some of them in flip-flops - beat much bigger teams from around the world. Their story is still told to children today as proof that no school is too small to dream big.
Taiwanese baseball fans are loud and joyful. Stadiums have organised cheer squads, drums, trumpets and chants - each player on the home team has their own song that the whole stadium sings when they walk up to bat. Many fans bring inflatable cheering sticks that they knock together to make noise. It is more like a music concert than a quiet sports game.
Several Taiwanese baseball players have gone to play in the major leagues in the United States and Japan. When one of them plays a big game, Taiwanese fans watch live on TV no matter what time it is in Taiwan - even three o'clock in the morning. The whole country celebrates when a Taiwanese player wins.