{"id":66803,"date":"2024-09-18T09:45:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T00:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/18\/baseball-history-north-korea"},"modified":"2024-09-18T09:45:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T00:45:10","slug":"stamps-sticks-and-stories-looking-for-traces-of-baseball-in-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66803","title":{"rendered":"Stamps, sticks and stories: looking for traces of baseball in North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like a trail of breadcrumbs, there are signs this most cherished of American sports may still be played in a country that calls itself the \u2018biggest enemy\u2019 of the US<\/p>\n<p>How do you find evidence that people are still playing \u2013 or still remember \u2013 a once-loved sport?<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, when a baseball team called the Challengers, made up of young North Korean defectors, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=a+baseball+team+called+the+Challengers%2C+made+up+of+young+North+Korean+defectors%2C+toured+the+US%2C&amp;rlz=1C5GCCM_en&amp;oq=a+baseball+team+called+the+Challengers%2C+made+up+of+young+North+Korean+defectors%2C+toured+the+US%2C&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRhAMgYIAhBFGEAyBggDEEUYQNIBBzIxNGowajmoAgCwAgE&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\">toured the US<\/a>, American and Korean media reported that baseball was \u201cunheard of\u201d in the North.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/18\/baseball-history-north-korea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a trail of breadcrumbs, there are signs this most cherished of American sports may still be played in a country that calls itself the \u2018biggest enemy\u2019 of the USHow do you find evidence that people are still playing \u2013 or still remember \u2013 a once-love&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3012,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-baseball","category-north-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66804,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66803\/revisions\/66804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}