It isn't nearly fast enough for you

It isn't nearly fast enough for you

It's what I was afraid of

I stumbled into you

But it isn't nearly fast enough for you

It isn't nearly fast enough for you

Hello and welcome to episode 1545 of Effectively Wild

a fan-graphed spaceball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters

I'm Meg Rally of FanGraphs and I'm joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of the Ring or Ben How are you?

Doing well, how are you?

I'm doing okay

Cool, well we will be joined shortly by ESPN's John Boog Shambi

One of the best baseball broadcasters out there I think we would both agree and he has been one of the American voices of the KBO for the past few weeks

And we're going to talk to him about that whole experience of learning a new league and calling games from thousands of miles away

And what his setup is like and what the future of remote broadcasting is

But just for a few minutes before we get to Boog, I felt down a bit of a rabbit hole yesterday

And now I want to drag everyone else down with me if you will entail me

So we got an email from a listener named Andrew Morris. He is a history professor at Cal Poly

And he wanted to alert us to a book that he wrote about 10 years ago about the history of baseball in Taiwan

It's called Colonial Project, National Game of History of Baseball in Taiwan

But he also included a little tidbit that really caught my attention and sent me on a search

So he wanted to pass along something that's on the back of the 1975 tops her Washington baseball card

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