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Chinese baseball needs a Yao Ming

By Jerry Crasnick
ESPN Insider

Monday, March 7, 2005

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Before Chairman Mao banned baseball in 1960 in conjunction with China's Cultural Revolution, one of the nation's foremost military leaders theorized that the game was excellent training for the battle field. The skills used in throwing a baseball, Marshal He Long believed, could easily be applied to throwing a hand grenade. And you thought Alex Rodriguez was playing rough when he dislodged that ball from Bronson Arroyo's glove in the ALCS last October. Baseball returned to ...

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