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BEIJING (AP) - Selling baseball in China won't be easy or cheap. Of course, the rewards in a country with 1.3 billion people could be enormous.
Enter Major League Baseball, which worked for years to put together this weekend's two exhibition games in Beijing between the San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers, the first MLB games in China.
There's a lot riding on it. It's the first test of the Olympic baseball venue, and MLB's boldest attempt to attract Chinese fans, most of whom follow only basketball or soccer and know little of the game of "bangqiu."
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