The China Stars was a

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

team established in 2005. It was made up of the best players in the

China Baseball League The China Baseball League (, CBL) was a professional baseball league under the administration of Chinese Baseball Association, founded in 2002. The league suspended operations in 2012 due to financial troubles after the 2011 season, but return ...

. The team was established in purpose of playing with the winners from the professional baseball league in

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Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

, and

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in the annual Konami Cup Asia Series. The China Stars lost all the 9 games in their three participations. Since 2008, the

send their series Champion to the Asia Series like the other 3 leagues do, the China Stars was disbanded.

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