Jung-Tai Sung

Jung-Tai Sung (宋榮泰)

• Bats Left, Throws Left
• Height 5' 9", Weight 179 lb.

• High School San-Hsin High School

• Born June 20, 1959 in Tainan County Taiwan

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Biographical Information

1B-OF Jung-Tai Sung played in the Olympics and got the first hit in the history of the CPBL.

Sung played for Taiwan in the 1983 Asian Championship, 1983 Intercontinental Cup and 1984 Olympics. He was just 4 for 23 with two walks and a homer as Taiwan's primary DH in the 1984 Amateur World Series. He played in the 1985 Asian Championship. Sung was an All-Star outfielder in the 1985 Intercontinental Cup, joining Luis Casanova and Lionel Harris in being so honored. He was also in the 1987 Intercontinental Cup. He was slated to play in the 1988 Olympics but was a late cut.

The Uni-President Lions signed Sung in 1990 when the CPBL was formed. He got the first hit against Yung-Chang Chang in league history on March 17 and went on to hit .282/.389/.396 with a league-best 50 walks in 1990. He was selected into the 1990 CPBL All-Star Games, and he was 0-for-5. Sung slumped to .220/.306/.282 in 1991, and he was 1-for-6 in the 1991 CPBL All-Star Game. He hit .259/.333/.333 in the 1991 Taiwan Series, and the Lions beat the Wei-Chuan Dragons in 7 games. Sung had a .226/.305/.363 batting line in 1992, and he was 1-for-5 in the All-Star Game.

Sung improved to .258/.322/.349 in 1993, and he shined in the 1993 Taiwan Series. He hit .400/.500/.733 with a homer against Dave Pavlas in Game 2, and he was named the Outstanding Player of the series (a step below Series MVP I-Chung Hong). The Lions lost to the Brother Elephants in 6 games through. Sung hit .250/.289/.356 in 1994 and .250/.309/.295 in 1995. He improved again in 1996, hitting .312/.349/.493 and he played well in the Taiwan Series again. He had a .435/.462/.739 batting line and crushed a homer against Dario Perez of the Wei Chuan Dragons in Game 3. The Lions beat the Dragons in 6 games, and Sung won the Outstanding Player award again; Chin-Hsing Kuo won MVP that time. He was the first player to win this award twice. Sung slumped to .215/.325/.287 in 1997, then he announced his retirement after batting .197/.300/.231 in 1998. He later coached for the Lions, and he was the coach of WuFeng Institute of Technology from 2015 to 2016.

Sources

• Defunct IBAF site
• Taiwan Baseball Wiki
• KT Choi's Taiwanese baseball database
• CPBL.com Bio