At the end of the last century, baseball in Taiwan suffered a series of blows: players were caught fixing games for gamblers, there was destructive competition between the CPBL and the Taiwan Major League, and the professional players who represented Taiwan internationally did not perform well.
上個世紀末接連球員簽賭、中華職棒與台灣那魯灣兩聯盟惡鬥，以及職棒球員代表國家隊出征卻戰績不佳等接連打擊，職棒賽場一度冷清。