Collecting information about
baseball games.
收集有关棒球比赛的信息
Kids used to trade
baseball cards.
孩子们过去常互相交换棒球卡片。
We talked idly about magazines and
baseball.
我们闲聊着杂志和棒球。
"If you're a Washington state-apple grower, if you're a baseball bat-maker in Louisville, those businesses want customers around the US, and we've got millions on the platform.
Many US consumers like to have some seeds and nuts when they are watching baseball games, and others like to eat seeds with barbecue sauce for pleasure," said Wang Bin, vice-president and chief product officer of ChaCha.
"He believes that professionals, like baseball players, must be willing to go out to bat and strike out 99 times - because the 100th time just might be the grand slam that launches their career and helps them make a real impact in their field.
China is embracing a larger role in the global sports world as a Chinese company is poised to acquire the company that owns one of the most iconic brands associated with the US pastime of baseball: the Louisville Slugger baseball bat.
Along with apple pie and hot dogs, baseball remains a symbol of the United States.
While baseball is not as global as soccer or basketball, it has been international for a long time, said David Hollander, a professor of sports management at New York University.
"Baseball players use Japanese products regularly.
Earlier this year, Major League Baseball (MLB) and Tencent formed a strategic partnership to livestream MLB games and MLB highlight programs in China.
"If you are training for football, or soccer, or baseball, or basketball, you are running.
When I'm at home I want to talk about family matters, holidays, baseball games and having fun," he said.
The sports service will be rolled out in early 2018, a little later than previously announced, and will air baseball, hockey and soccer games, tennis matches and college sports through ESPN's popular mobile app.
Customers will also be able to buy fuller streaming packages from the baseball, hockey and soccer leagues, and watch them on the ESPN app.
To roll out its streaming services, Disney is taking majority control of BAMTech, the streaming arm of Major League Baseball, for $1.6 billion.
"For example, he is working on a smart baseball that can record all motion data.
He is a huge baseball fan and also teaches local children to play baseball in Shenzhen.
In an email to senior executives of Dayang, Indochino CEO Drew Green said MLB (Major League Baseball) player Coco Crisp had bought "over 60 suits that were made and produced by Dayang－all of which he loved".
Quality control is of utmost importance when weighing in on world-class ballsAt the workshop of Dushan Runyang Sports Equipment Co in Dushan county, Guizhou province, a scale machine is used to strictly control the weight of each baseball the factory manufactures－between 142 and 147 grams.
She washes her hands and starts to watch TV while sewing the outside leather covers for a baseball.
"Sewing a baseball is to tie a shoelace on the ball," said Li, who has never played the sport and has barely watched it on TV.
"To make one baseball, it takes seven steps, including making the cork center, wrapping it with leather and sewing the stitches by hand," said Shi.
To make a high-quality baseball, quality control is crucial.
The total number of exports from Runyang amounts to about 50 percent of China's total baseball exports.
According to Jiang Shaohong, the company's production director, the factory has grown from a small workshop to a complete baseball production line that employs more than 200 people.
It's fun to watch a baseball game, but did you ever wonder where the balls come from?
To make a professional-grade baseball, quality control is crucial.
It took Smash customer Qiu Siyu just a few sharp blows with a baseball bat to wreck what looked like an old car radio, after which two friends battered telephones, audio speakers, rice cookers and even a mannequin.