The Major League Baseball (MLB) recently signed a contract with Nanjing Dongshan Foreign Language School on the establishment of MLB Flagship Development Center in China.
MLB is the top professional baseball league in the world and is ranked the second on the list of world top 200 sports brands with a brand value of $3.94 billion.
MLB entered China in 2007. It has set up baseball development centers in Wuxi and Changzhou before it started up the flagship center in Nanjing. MLB will send its coaches and professional personnel at home to coach youngsters in China. In addition, the outstanding young players selected from the centers in Wuxi and Changzhou will be sent to the center in Nanjing where they will be trained into the top players of China.
Baseball is a featured sports game of Nanjing Dongshan Foreign Language School. The school built a floodlit baseball field of international level in 2011, which hosted the Baseball Championship for Youngsters in Asia Pacific Region in 2012, and was rated as an “Excellent Venue” by Chinese Baseball Association.
