Kao Chih-kang
Kao Chih-kang |
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Uni-President Lions — No. 34 |
Catcher |
Bats: Right |
Throws: Right |
Professional debut |
CPBL: March 13, 2005 for the Uni-President Lions |
statistics
(through 2007) |
Games |
226 |
Batting average |
0.280 |
Hits |
189 |
Home runs |
8 |
RBIs |
79 |
Stolen bases |
6 |
Kao Chih-kang, (traditional Chinese: 高志綱; simplified Chinese: 高志纲; pinyin: Gāo Zhìngāng; Wade–Giles: Kao1 Chih4 Kang1; born February 7, 1981 in Taichung County (now part of Taichung City), Taiwan, Republic of China), is a Taiwanese professional baseball player (position: catcher). After brief amateur career in the Taiwan Cooperative Bank he was drafted by the Uni-President Lions of Chinese Professional Baseball League in early 2005 and stayed in this team to date. Kao is widely regarded as the best Taiwanese catchers of his generation, and has been a frequent member of the Chinese Taipei national baseball team since 2001.
Kao is best known for hitting the game winning RBI in the Chinese Taipei versus South Korea match in the 2003 Asian Baseball Championship series. This victory qualified the Taiwan national baseball team for the 2004 Olympics.
He has competed at both the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympic Games.[1]
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Manager 56 Hua-Wei Lin | Coach 2 I-Chung Hung | Coach 3 Chih-Shien Yeh | Coach 66 Ming-Tsu Lu | Coach 67 Fu-Lien Wu | Coach 85 Hsieh Chang-heng
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Persondata |
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Kao, Chih-kang |
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February 7, 1981 |
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