When Did The Baseball Cap Enter China?

Baseball caps entered the land of China along with baseball. The earliest record of Chinese playing baseball was when Chinese engineer Zhan Tianyou was studying at Yale University (1877-1881) and organized the Chinese baseball team, baseball cap and later returned from the United States and Japan. Of overseas Chinese and overseas students brought baseball back to the motherland. In 1895, a baseball team was established in Beijing Huishuyuan. In 1907, Beijing Huishu Academy competed against Tongzhou Xiehe Academy. This is the earliest baseball game in China.

Since 1913, baseball cap the Far East Games, initiated by China, Japan, baseball cap and the Philippines, has had baseball games in all previous years, and China has sent teams to participate many times. The Chinese Games before the founding of the People's Republic of China also had baseball games, baseball cap and most of the participants were students. During the Anti-Japanese War, the Eighth Route Army carried out baseball in the anti-Japanese base areas such as northern Shaanxi and Jinchaji. But baseball was only a rare sport at the time, and not all athletes wore baseball caps. Because of the limited conditions, baseball cap it was even more impossible to popularize it among the masses.

In 1952, there was a baseball game in the First Military Games of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. In 1959, baseball cap at the First National Games, baseball was listed as an official event, baseball cap with 23 provincial and municipal teams participating, and the Beijing team won the championship. In 1975, at the Third National Games, baseball cap the preliminary and finals of the baseball game were held in Luda and Beijing respectively. The first team was named Tianjin. In the 4th National Games of 1979, 14 provincial and municipal teams participated in the baseball game. The champion was the Beijing team. In September 1975, Japan's Aichi University baseball team came to China for a visit to China, baseball cap and China began its international exchange of baseball.

In August 1976, baseball cap the baseball team of Hosei University of Japan visited. The Chinese Baseball and Softball Association was established in 1979, and various provinces and cities have successively established branches. At this time, baseball cap baseball players really wore baseball caps that symbolized baseball. Since then, baseball cap baseball caps have penetrated into the lives of Chinese people. Everyone has the right to wear baseball caps, baseball cap and ordinary people have also brought baseballs. Caps and baseball caps have also been made into different styles.