Saturday, September 27, 2008

Lo Kuo-Chong

Lo Kuo-Chong , also credited as Lo Kuo-chang, is a retired professional baseball player and currently a baseball coach. He had been well-known for his excellent fielding ability and was a frequent member of the Chinese Taipei national baseball team from mid-1980s to early 1990s, participating the and where he won a silver medal in 1992.

After the 1992 Olympics Lo joined then amateur in anticipation to join CPBL the next year. However his hope was temporarily vanished when CPBL rejected Sampo Giants's application late in 1992. Lo later sought to join Uni-President Lions before the 1994 CPBL season, and stayed with the team to date, originally as player and later as fielding coach. He was also briefly promoted as the team's acting manager in mid-2007 for 2 months.

Trivia


* He won the 1996 CPBL Rookie of the Year award at the age of 31, therefore was jokingly referred to as ''old man of the year'' by commentators and players.

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