Barry Larkin to visit Taiwan

Published Fri, Jan 29 10 07:23 AM

Washington, Jan 29 (PTI) America''s Major League Baseball All-Star and Hall of Fame nominee Barry Larkin will visit Taiwan as a Sports Envoy of the US State Department in the first week of next month. Former Montreal Expo pitcher Joe Logan will join Larkin for their second Sports Envoy programme for the SportsUnited Office of the Department''s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the State Department said in a statement. During the six-day trip from February 1, Larkin and Logan will visit Taipei-Hsien and Kaohsiung. "The Envoys will conduct six baseball clinics, visit an orphanage and a school for at-risk youth and attend an exhibition baseball game between two Taipei high schools," the statement said. They will also interact with youths from Taiwan who visited the US in September 2009 on a Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs SportsUnited programme, the State Department said.

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