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Chien-Ming Wang (1980)
Chien-Ming Wang (Chinese: 王建民), born March 31, 1980 in Tainan City, Taiwan, is a starting pitcher for the New York Yankees in Major League Baseball. He was initially signed as an amateur free-agent for the 2000 season, playing for the Staten Island Yankees.
Wang, Hong-Chih Kuo and Chin-hui Tsao are the current Taiwanese players who play in the MLB. Kuo and Tsao are pitchers for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
In a New York Times interview, Wang revealed that he was the biological child of the man he formerly thought was his uncle. Due to the media frenzy created in Taiwan over this, Wang briefly refused to give interviews to Taiwanese media. [2] Wang has also learned basic English and is able to give interviews to American media without an interpreter. Wang currently resides in Little Neck, Queens.
