Deviation Behavior of Taiwanese Professional Baseball Players -- The Black Eagles Case Study

• Main Authors: Ching-Wen Wang, 王晶文
• Other Authors: Ching Li
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78684600605044339470

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 運動與休閒管理研究所在職碩士班 === 100 === Baseball is Taiwan's national sport, but the Chinese Professional Baseball League(CPBL) has seen five cases of bribery since 1997. They have dealt a serious blow to CPBI as a brand, and more and more fans, deeply hurt and disappointed, have simply stopped caring about the games. This study has as its theme the causes and types of the deviation behavior of the players involved in the scandals, as well as the impact of the behavior on the sport as a whole in Taiwan. The study adopts in-depth interview methodology, reinforced by comparative analyses of relevant documents, data, player information, interviews of team managers, experts and scholars. The study finds that the players who got involved in the "Eagles scandal" did so consciously. Some causes for that has thair roots in the lack of proper formative process on their way to becoming professional players, as well as a lack of legal concept. The types of deviation behavior, including poor self-discipline, gambling, violence and bribery, complicate one another. Properly understood, quite a number of factors have contributed to such a behavior as match-fixing or throwin a game. Among the factors are: temptation of money, peer pressure, wrong-headed frienship, underground gambling, a union system gone awry, and an environment not conducive to the development of sportsmanship. The study also finds that the "Eagles scandal" has some profound impact on the players and their families. It's not only that the players have their career cut short and their reputation ruined for good. A number of their children also have had their baseball career delayed or stripped. A more general impact can be seen in many baseball fans turning their back on the games. Given that as much as 80 percent of professional players and many as six teams grew corrupt, the scale of the scandals are striking. Yet all the prosecutors have done is going only after the Eagles. Neither have the clubs and CPBI shown any respectable capacity for crisis management. This is one of the reasons why the evil of gambling in Taiwan's professional baseball games have never been rooted out, and four cases of match-fixing have followed the Eagles scandal in a row.