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added later, one in 1986 and the other in 1989. Each team is sponsored<br />
by a different Korean corporation and plays a 133 game season. There<br />
are at present eight teams in the league. Foreign players joined local<br />
teams starting in the 1998 season. At present, 24 foreign players, <strong>from</strong><br />
the United States, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and other countries<br />
are playing for the eight local teams.<br />
Korean youth teams are also very competitive and have fared particulary<br />
well in international competition. In 1984<br />
and 1985 Korea won the Little League World<br />
Series which are held annually in<br />
Williamsport, PA, USA. In<br />
addition, at the AAA World<br />
Youth Baseball Champion-ships<br />
for 16 to 18 year-olds, the<br />
Korean team has finished in the<br />
top five a total of six times over<br />
the last 13 years. They won in<br />
1981 and more recently in 1994.<br />
Recently, Korean baseball stars<br />
have begun to make a name for<br />
themselves in American and<br />
Japanese leagues. After a rough<br />
start in the Major Leagues, Park<br />
Chan-ho is now a starting pitcher<br />
for the Texas Rangers and Kim<br />
Byung-hyun is piling up strikeouts<br />
with the Bostone Red SOX.<br />
Choi Hee-sup is active as an upand-coming<br />
first-baseman for the<br />
Florida Marlins, a U.S. Major<br />
League Baseball team.<br />
83 _ Sports and Leisure