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Comment (BEIJING — On a dusty, shoddy baseball field here this spring, Jim Lefebvre, manager of the Chinese national baseball team, gathered his players and demonstrated the Red Sox slugger Manny Ramírez’s philosophy on hitting.
Skip to next paragraph Countdown to BeijingSports in TranslationCoverage of the 2008 Beijing Games from every angle — the politics, the arts, the culture and the competition.The Rings RSS Feed | AtomGo to the Rings Blog » Olympics 2008Go to Complete Coverage » Enlarge This ImageDoug Kanter for The New York TimesMost of the national team’s players tried baseball in their teens after failing to advance in two or three other sports.“If you hit it here,” Lefebvre said, acting as if he were hitting a ball after it passed his body, “you drive a Chevy.”
“If you hit it here,” he said, pretending to hit the ball as it crossed the ...
