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Wang Chun-liang (汪俊良) hit just two home runs over a five-year career, but his first one is enshrined in local baseball lore. On March 17, 1990, Wang’s feat extended the lead the Uni President Lions had over the Brother Elephants in Taiwan’s first professional baseball match, sealing a historic win.
During a pre-game guessing contest, the majority of fans thought that the day’s hero would be the Elephants’ “Mr Baseball” Lee Chu-ming (李居明).
“I was a dark horse, nobody guessed it would be me,” Wang recalls 18 years later in a Liberty Times (Taipei Times’ sister paper)