Retired professional baseball players form team for World Masters Games

Retired professional baseball players form team for World Masters Games

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Retired baseball player and founder of the Basegarden grassroots baseball organization Chou Szu-chi has put together a team of former professional baseball players to compete in the upcoming World Masters Games. They held a press conference recently to announce the logo, uniform, and players on their team, the Goat Bros. Their goal is to win the gold medal at the Games and continue to promote baseball in Taiwan.

Holding banners and shouting slogans, 120 young baseball players join Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an at Taipei Dome to commemorate the new baseball team, the Goat Bros.

Team captain Chou Szu-chi, who found the Basegarden grassroots baseball organization, has recruited other former professional baseball players, including Chen Kuan-jen, Kao Kuo-hui, and Wu Chun-yi, to join the team. They will compete at the upcoming World Masters Games in Taipei and New Taipei City.

Chou Szu-chi
Goat Bros captain
Our teamwork still needs improvement because none of us have trained in a long time. Our next game will be a warm-up match with the National Taiwan University A3 team. We want to recruit more retired professional baseball players, becoming a team of sports ambassadors.

Chen Kuan-jen
Goat Bros player
This was my first time swinging a bat at Taipei Dome and it felt really good. I’m grateful for the hard work of everyone in the baseball industry. It’s because of them we have Taipei Dome, allowing us to grow through this platform.

Wu Chun-yi
Goat Bros player
Our goal is to do the best we can. Of course, every player hopes we can be champions. This is an unchanging goal. But we have to take it one step at a time, one game at a time, with the championship as the ultimate goal.

Chiang Wan-an
Taipei Mayor
Participating in this competition is important for the future development of baseball in Taiwan. Hopefully we can continue promoting it, especially for young students, so that we can cultivate more talent at a grassroots level who can stand on the international stage.

The team chose the Taiwan black goat as their mascot, representing the uniqueness and tenacity of Taiwan’s baseball culture. In addition to pursuing the championship, the Goat Bros hope to promote baseball in Taiwan, cultivating more young players to continue Taiwan’s baseball legacy.

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"山羊兄弟隊"成軍周思齊領軍瞄準世壯運金牌

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為了響應雙北世壯運，球芽基金會創辦人周思齊，率領陳冠任、高國輝等職棒退役球星，籌組"山羊兄弟隊"，今天(21)舉辦成軍記者會，公布隊徽、球衣以及隊職員名單，目標拿下世壯運金牌，隊長周思齊也希望，山羊兄弟隊能夠成為棒球宣傳大使團，繼續為台灣棒球運動，盡一份心力。

手舉標語、高喊口號，120位棒球小選手和台北市長蔣萬安，一同在台北大巨蛋見證GOATBROS"山羊兄弟隊"正式誕生。

球芽基金會創辦人周思齊擔任隊長，找來陳冠任、吳俊億以及高國輝等退役球星，籌組職棒OB隊，挑戰即將到來的雙北世壯運。

[[山羊兄弟隊長周思齊]]
“默契還有待加強，因為大家都太久沒有訓練了，我們下一次會以台灣大學這個甲三組的，來跟他們先打熱身賽，想要進一步的整合一些台灣棒球的OB球員，退役的球員，算是一個運動大使團的概念”

[[山羊兄弟隊員陳冠任]]
“第一次在大巨蛋嘛，實際的揮擊然後感覺非常好，也感謝這麼多，努力在棒球界的人，才能有這個大巨蛋，讓我們可以在這個舞台去發展”

[[山羊兄弟隊員吳俊億]]
“目標應該就是打出最好的成績，每位選手當然都是希望可以拿到冠軍，這是不變的一個目標，但是當然還是先一步一步，一步一腳印，一場一場贏，當然冠軍還是最終目標”

[[台北市長蔣萬安]]
“這次參加比賽，更重要是未來對於台灣棒球的發展，希望能夠持續地來推動，特別對，像各位同學孩子們，基層棒球培養更多優秀的人才，一樣站上國際舞台”

隊徽選擇"台灣黑山羊"，代表台灣棒球文化的獨特性與堅韌精神，"山羊兄弟隊"除了力拼佳績，也要持續推動台灣棒球發展，培養棒球人才，讓台灣國球繼續蓬勃發展。

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