Baseball field comes up in Vietnam

US non-profit organization Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF) inaugurated Friday Vietnam’s first ever baseball field in the central Quang Tri province.
The field, at Le Loi high school in Dong Ha town, is part of a program “Bringing baseball to Vietnam”, initiated by VVMF and major league baseball pitcher Danny Graves.
The major league refers to one of the two American leagues in baseball, the US’ favorite sport but unknown in many countries around the world. The league contributed US$40,000 towards building the Quang Tri field.

For Vietnamese-American Graves, the visit is the first time ever to his native country since his family moved to the US when he was only 14 months old.
Before building the field, the project staff had to remove one artillery shell, two mortars, and 11 other types of ordnance from the site.

(Source: Thanh Nien, VVMF – Compiled by Hoang Bao)