Jungo Bears

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Jungo Bears

League

Chinese Professional Baseball League

Location

Taichung

Ballpark

Taichung Baseball Field

Year Founded

1993

League championships

Uniforms






Home






Away

This article is about the Taiwanese baseball team. For the Danish cartoon character and associated media, see Jungledyret Hugo.

The Jungo Bears (俊國熊) was a Taiwanese professional baseball team belonging to the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) and existed between 1993 and 1995. Originally formed as an amateur club by the Taichung-based Jungo Corporation in 1989, this club was professionalized in 1992 after absorbing a group of players from the Taiwan national baseball team who just won the silver medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics, similar to its sister team China Times Eagles. This club took Taichung Baseball Field as its home throughout its history.

Despite a nice start, this club had been performing poorly throughout its short history, mainly due to the controversial leading styles of Jungo Corporation's then chairman Chen I-ping (陳一平). After a chain of rows over TV broadcast rights and the distribution of TV broadcast royalties, in November 1995 the other 5 teams of CPBL expelled Chen I-ping and Jungo Corporation's all legal rights inside CPBL. The Sinon Corporation took over this team and renamed it as Sinon Bears, which was later renamed again as Sinon Bulls in June 1996. Later in 1999 Chen I-ping and Jungo Corporation sought to sponsor Taiwan Major League(TML)'s Taichung Agan but TML did not respond.