Chiang Tai-chuan
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| Chiang Tai-chuan | |||||||||||||||
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| Catcher/Outfielder | |||||||||||||||
| Born: October 26, 1960 Chiayi County, Taiwan | |||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||
| CPBL debut | |||||||||||||||
| March 12, 1993, for the Uni-President Lions | |||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | |||||||||||||||
| October 19, 1996, for the Uni-President Lions | |||||||||||||||
| CPBL statistics | |||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .278 | ||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 118 | ||||||||||||||
| Teams | |||||||||||||||
| As player
As manager As coach | |||||||||||||||
| Career highlights and awards | |||||||||||||||
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Medals
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Chiang Tai-chuan (Chinese: 江泰權; pinyin: Jiāng Tàiquán; born 26 October 1960 in Chiayi County, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese retired professional baseball player and baseball coach. He is best known for being the first baseball player to compete in three consecutive Olympic Games: in the 1984, 1988 and 1992 Olympics where he won a bronze medal in 1984 (as a demonstration sport) and silver medal in 1992.[1]
A member of China Times Eagles' amateur forerunner Black Eagles since 1990, after the 1992 Summer Olympics Chiang planned to join CPBL along with this soon-to-be-professionalized club. However, in November 1992, the Eagles accidentally traded him to Uni-President Lions due to its unfamiliarity with CPBL's trading rules. Chiang stayed with the Lions until the end of 1996 season. Before CPBL's 1997 season started, he planned to transfer to then just-established Koos Groups Whales, but also in this time CPBL expelled him after it was determined that he was involved in The Black Eagles Incident. Chiang was forced to retire after this scandal and he later found a coaching job in the China Baseball League.
Statistics
[edit]In the 1992 Olympics:
hitting average Games At bat Runs Hits RBI Double Triple HR K Walk .310 9 29 2 9 4 4 0 0 5 8
CPBL career:
Year Club Games At bat Runs Hits Double Triple HR RBI Total bases Walk K Stolen Base Caught Stealing Hitting Average 1993 Uni-President Lions 88 319 38 100 21 0 1 39 124 23 25 20 19 0.313 1994 Uni-President Lions 56 183 17 44 5 0 1 26 52 18 14 3 3 0.240 1995 Uni-President Lions 99 317 30 82 12 0 1 29 97 29 21 12 6 0.259 1996 Uni-President Lions 88 274 30 78 18 0 2 24 102 23 17 8 4 0.285
References
[edit]- ^ Nauright, J. (2012). Sports around the World [4 volumes]: History, Culture, and Practice [4 volumes]. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 3-PA51. ISBN 978-1-59884-301-9. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
External links
[edit]- "Tai-Chuan Chiang". databaseOlympics. Archived from the original on 10 February 2007.
- 1960 births
- Living people
- Asian Games competitors for Chinese Taipei
- Baseball coaches
- Baseball outfielders
- Baseball players at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Baseball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Baseball players at the 1990 Asian Games
- Baseball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Fu Jen Catholic University alumni
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic baseball players for Taiwan
- Olympic medalists in baseball
- Olympic silver medalists for Taiwan
- People from Chiayi County
- Taiwanese baseball players
- Taiwanese expatriate sportspeople in China