Chiang Tai-Chuan is a retired Taiwanese

Republic of China

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 professional baseball

Professional baseball

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 player (position:outfielder

Outfielder

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) and currently a baseball coach

Coach (baseball)

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. He is best known for being the first baseball player to compete in 3 consecutive Olympic Games

Olympic Games

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: in the 1984

Baseball at the 1984 Summer Olympics

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, 1988

Baseball at the 1988 Summer Olympics

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 and 1992

Baseball at the 1992 Summer Olympics

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 Olympics where he won a bronze medal

Bronze medal

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 in 1984(as demonstration sport

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) and silver medal

Silver medal

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 in 1992.

A member of China Times Eagles

China Times Eagles

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' amateur

Amateur

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 forerunner Black Eagles since 1990, after the 1992 Summer Olympics Chiang originally planned to join CPBL along with this soon-to-be-professionalized club. However in November 1992 the Eagles accidentally traded him to Uni-President Lions

Uni-President Lions

The Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions are a professional baseball team based in Tainan City, Taiwan. The organization is named after the Uni-President Corporation, one of Taiwan's largest conglomerate whose sub-company Uni-President Baseball Team Company oversees operations of the team...

 due to its unfamiliarity with CPBL's trading rules. Chiang stayed with the Lions until the end of 1996 season. Before CPBL's 1997 season started, Chiang planned to transfer to then just-established Koos Groups Whales

Chinatrust Whales

The Chinatrust Whales , formerly Koos Group Whales , were a Taiwanese professional baseball team. Originally founded as an amateur team in 1991, this club became professional and joined the Chinese Professional Baseball League in 1997. It is administered by the Chinatrust Financial Holding...

, but also in this time CPBL expelled him after he was confirmed to be involved in the The Black Eagles Incident. Chiang was forced to retire after this scandal and he later found a coaching job in the China Baseball League

China Baseball League

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. He currently coaches Tianjin Lions

Tianjin Lions

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.

Statistics

In the 1992 Olympics:

hitting average	Games	At bat	Runs	Hits	RBI	Double	Triple	HR	K	Walk
.310	9	29	2	9	4	4	0	0	5	8

CPBL career:

Year	Club	Games	At bat	Runs	Hits	Double	Triple	HR	RBI	Total bases	Walk	K	Stolen Base	Caught Stealing	Hitting Average
1993	Uni-President Lions	88	319	38	100	21	0	1	39	124	23	25	20	19	0.313
1994	Uni-President Lions	56	183	17	44	5	0	1	26	52	18	14	3	3	0.240
1995	Uni-President Lions	99	317	30	82	12	0	1	29	97	29	21	12	6	0.259
1996	Uni-President Lions	88	274	30	78	18	0	2	24	102	23	17	8	4	0.285

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