The Hong Kong national baseball team is the representative team for

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

in international

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 t ...

competition. The team finished 6th in the 2007

Asian Baseball Championship The Asian Baseball Championship is the main championship tournament between national baseball teams in Asia, governed by the Baseball Federation of Asia (BFA). It is held every other year in odd-numbered years and since 1983 it also functions ...

Current roster

Roster for the 2012 East Asian Cup: ;Manager: David Wong Tai Wai ;Coaches: Au Hok Leung (Head Coach), Ng Yuk Ming, Chan Tsz Yeung

Alumni

The team, consisting of young Chinese men, courted some controversy in the Hong Kong media, when they were shown naked on camera in a Hong Kong film, '' City Without Baseball'', with their private parts fully exposed in several scenes. One of the team's main players, Ron Heung Tze-Chun, who was also the main character in the film, has gone on to become a Hong Kong film actor.

Venues

Hong Kong Baseball uses two fields for practice and games: * Sai Tso Wan Recreation Ground - located in

Lam Tin Lam Tin is an area in the Kwun Tong District in southeastern New Kowloon, Hong Kong. Lam Tin is primarily a residential area but also hosts a major transport interchange and several shopping attractions. Lam Tin was once a large field in th ...

, it is the training venue for the team and built on a landfill site in 2004 *

Lion Rock Park Baseball Field The lion (''Panthera leo'') is a large cat of the genus ''Panthera'' native to Africa and India. It has a muscular, broad-chested body; short, rounded head; round ears; and a hairy tuft at the end of its tail. It is sexually dimorphic; adult ...

- located to the left of the south end of

Lion Rock Tunnel The Lion Rock Tunnel, the first major road tunnel in Hong Kong, is a twin-bored toll tunnel, connecting Hin Tin, Sha Tin in the New Territories and New Kowloon near Kowloon Tong. It has two southbound lanes, and there are two northbound lan ...

and south side of the larger Lion Rock Country Park, it is an alternate baseball venue for the team

References

External links

HKBA (Chinese)
National sports teams of Hong Kong, Baseball National baseball teams in Asia {{Asia-baseball-team-stub