Taitung Red Leaves

The Taitung Red Leaves (Chinese: 紅葉少棒隊; lit. 'Red Leaf Little League Team'), also known as the Hongye or Maple Leaf baseball team, was a little league baseball team from Hongye, Yanping Township, Taitung, Taiwan.

In August 1968, the Red Leaves swept 7–0 to beat an all-star youth team from Japan. This win is commonly cited as the starting point of baseball fever in Taiwan, resulting in the win of the Taichung Golden Dragons the following year at the 1969 Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania and culminating in Taiwan's continued successes at the Little League World Series.

There is a museum in Taitung dedicated to the Red Leaves.

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