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HOME RUN Korea helps Laos get to first base in the sport of baseball. TEXT BY TAE-JUN KANG PHOTOGRAPHS BY INASGOC / BASEBALL FEDERATION OF ASIA
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hen Je Sung-uk first came to Laos in 2012, baseball did not exist. The landlocked nation saw its first baseball team only in 2013 after Je mobilised around ten people who had an interest in playing the American sport beginning with practice sessions at one of the car parks in the capital city Vientiane. Despite its short history, the progress it has made is remarkable. More than 100 Lao people now enjoy the previously non-existent sport in the country. With a government-backed baseball federation only being established last year, there are already three teams participating in the domestic baseball league. Moreover, Laos dispatched a national team to the 2018
