2007 World Cup Baseball Tourney has begun in Taichung. They're playing at both the new Intercontinental Stadium and the old stadium downtown. Chinese schedule here. English PDF here is kinda hard to read.

Highlights this week - Mexico vs. the US tonight at 6 pm ... Taiwan vs. South Africa Thurs at 6 pm and Japan vs. Mexico... Taiwan vs. Japan Friday night... Saturday noon Taiwan vs. Mexico and Saturday night the US vs. Japan. Sunday games Taiwan vs. Mexico at noon, evening games Spain vs. the US or Japan vs. Panama.

The US plays Taiwan next Wednesday the 14th...

The Taipei division includes Team Canada as well as traditional heavyweights Cuba, Korea and Holland. Germany has a team and so does Thailand! Who knew the Thais played baseball! Hope they're better than the Philippines.