00:00These young sluggers are going to travel a long way to play baseball.
00:09They're headed for the sports heartland, America,
00:13to compete in the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
00:20The team is from Dongyuan Elementary School in Taipei.
00:24They earned their spot after winning a regional tournament in South Korea earlier this month
00:30and will represent the whole of the Asia-Pacific region.
00:38Since 1969, teams from Taiwan have won the Little League World Series some 17 times,
00:46the most out of any Asian country.
00:48But it's been nearly three decades since the last title in 1996.
00:54Last year, a team from Taoyuan in northern Taiwan finished runner-up to a team from Florida.
01:01Leading this team is Lai Minnan, Dongyuan's longtime baseball coach,
01:06who has developed dozens of Taiwan's pro players.
01:10These elementary school students have already beaten the competition in Asia,
01:29proving they're the best in the region.
01:31But they're not stopping there.
01:34Now, they're headed to faraway Williamsport,
01:37where they want to stake their claim as best in the world.
01:40Do you believe in the world?
01:42Yes!
01:43Fu Hua Hong and Leslie Liao for Taiwan Plus.
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