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Article: Baseball Goes to the Great Wall
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- March 13, 2008
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Perched on the Great Wall of China, Trevor Hoffman gazed over the slick cobblestones and through the watchtowers to survey a barrier to invading armies that once stretched 4,000 miles.
This weekend, the Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers are playing two exhibition games in China. They will be Major League Baseball's first games here, and the Padres relief pitcher and the team's 100-person delegation began baseball's pitch Thursday on a stretch of the famous monument just north of Beijing.
Hoffman mugged for TV, stretched his arms wide as if he were about to soar off the wall, and answered questions from local reporters with a faint grasp of the game, which is called ...