Taiwan 500 Yuan Banknote – Face and Back
Jubilation!
Glee filled youth hurling baseball cap into the air in celebration of another triumph.
Dedication hard work and teamwork bring joy to the people and pride to all of Taiwan.
The Little League Baseball Team was the Toast of Taiwan.
In the thirteen year period between 1969 and 1981, the team brought 10 world series championships from Williamsport Pennsylvania.
The afternoon 2:00 pm game start in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, the home of Little League Baseball world series, would be an early morning 3:00 game time in Taiwan half a world away. Avid fans would be awake and watching. Up and down the streets in those early morning hours, Cheers and shouts could be heard emanating from windows lit by flickering television screens. Little league baseball is credited with transforming Taiwan’s breakfast habits as the celebrating fans went out hungry for breakfast. A fun article on this phenomenon can be found here.
That amazing run of world series championships commencing in 1969 coincided in a decades long erosion of international support for Taiwan’s claim to be the rightful representative of all China. In 1971, Taiwan lost its UN seat to mainland China, the Peoples Republic of China. Baseball helped buoy the spirit of the people and by the 1980s Taiwan was enjoying dramatic economic growth.
The Formosan Sika deer is unique to Taiwan.
