For Fans Hungry For Baseball, Taiwanese Announcer Made Right Call In Unusual Season

When Major League Baseball announced on March 12 that it was suspending spring training due to the spread of the coronavirus, Richard Wang's first thought was, OK, this may be a very slow year.

Since 2014, Wang has been one of the voices of Fox Sports Taiwan, calling MLB games in Mandarin Chinese from his hometown Taipei. Little did he know come October, he would be working double duty, as Taiwan's early success beating back the pandemic would lead to a whole new turn in his career and a chance to introduce Taiwan's professional baseball league to audiences around the world in English.

"It's definitely a very good thing for us to do, and I'm very proud of being part of it," Wang says. "Nobody would have ever thought that we were going to be having a very busy season like this."