A photo of 'Bhutan's Babe Ruth' went viral. Can it boost baseball there?

Ugyen Pelzang had unleashed a titanic swing that sent a baseball soaring into the air past the gawking infielders in front of him. It was a sure home run. But that wasn't why the photo of him went viral. Pelzang's homer happened in a paved parking lot, not a baseball diamond. Looming over the improvised field, in lieu of foul poles or bleachers, was the bronze figure of the Great Buddha Dordenma, a towering Buddha statue, and a backdrop of a thick forest shrouded in fog. Pelzang, the 19-year-old

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