Fubon Guardians
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| League | Chinese Professional Baseball League |
| Ballpark | Xinzhuang Baseball Stadium |
| Year founded | 1993 |
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| Ownership | Fubon Financial Holding Co. |
| Manager | Yeh Chun-Chang |
The Fubon Guardians (Chinese: 富邦悍將) are one of the four teams in the Chinese Professional Baseball League in Taiwan. The team is owned by Fubon Financial Holding Co. and play their home games at Xinzhuang Baseball Stadium in the New Taipei City.
The Jungo Bears (Chinese: 俊國熊) existed in the Chinese Professional Baseball League between 1993 and 1995. Originally formed as an amateur club by the Taichung-based Jungo Corporation in 1989, this club was professionalized in 1992 after absorbing a group of players from the Chinese Taipei national baseball team who just won the silver medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics, similar to its sister team China Times Eagles. This club took Taichung Baseball Field as its home throughout its history.
Despite a nice start, this club had been performing poorly throughout its short history, mainly due to the controversial leading styles of Jungo Corporation's then chairman Chen I-ping (陳一平). After a chain of rows over TV broadcast rights and the distribution of TV broadcast royalties, in November 1995 the other 5 teams of CPBL expelled Chen I-ping and Jungo Corporation's all legal rights inside CPBL. The Sinon Corporation took over this team and renamed it as Sinon Bears, which was later renamed again as Sinon Bulls in June 1996. Later in 1999 Chen I-ping and Jungo Corporation sought to sponsor Taiwan Major League (TML)'s Taichung Agan but TML did not respond.
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