Bobby Wine of division titles in the National League East has been linked to his work in sharing his astute baseball observations directly with longtime Braves' manager Bobby Cox. Wine lives with his wife, Fran, in Norristown, Pennsylvania. His son, Robbie, is a former major league catcher and the former head baseball coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions. In 2007, Wine was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame. In 2009, his grandson, Cory Wine, was drafted by his former team, the Philadelphia Phillies, in the 38th round of the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft. Bobby Wine Robert Paul Wine
Professional baseball in Taiwan Professional baseball in Taiwan Professional baseball in Taiwan started with the founding of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) in 1989. At its 1997 peak, Taiwan had two leagues and 11 professional teams. The competing Taiwan Major League ran from 1997 until its absorption by the CPBL in 2003. The professional game has had several game-fixing scandals which have led to sharp declines in game attendance. The first official indigenous baseball team in Taiwan was formed in 1906, when the island was a Japanese colony, by the Middle School of the Taiwan Governor-General's National Language School (present-day Jianguo Senior High