Taiwanese baseball fans shout slogans outside the National Sports Council on November 1, 2009 to demand the government save the island's favourite sport hit by a string of scandals. So far six bookies have been taken into custody and 13 players have been named as defendants in the probe into alleged match-fixing, according to prosecutors. Getty Images logo Getty Images 27 months ago

Taiwanese baseball fans shout slogans outside the National Sports Council on November 1, 2009 to demand the government save the island's favourite sport hit by a string of scandals. So far six bookies have been taken into custody and 13 players have been named as defendants in the probe into alleged match-fixing, according to prosecutors.

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