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A Baseball Journey Around the World

Sports-starved fans who wake up early can turn on the Worldwide Leader and see live baseball as ESPN airs the Korean Baseball Organization (KBO) games each morning.

Panther fans, take note, because you can watch one of your own as former Georgia State and Major League hurler David Buchanan now pitches for the Samsung Lions in the KBO.

Buchanan, who pitched for Georgia State in 2010, attended Fayette County High School just south of Atlanta but now calls Daegu, South Korea home.

While the KBO has become familiar as the only professional baseball league that is currently active, Buchanan is actually in his fourth year in Asia after three seasons (2017-19) pitching for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan.