Fu-Te Ni (倪福德)
Identity Snapshot
- English: Fu-Te Ni
- Chinese: 倪福德
- Era: 1982
- Geography: Pingtung, Taiwan
- Core roles: Taiwanese American (TAH Who’s Who)
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
- The first Taiwanese player to successfully transition from the Chinese Major League to Major League Baseball
Education
- National Chiayi Univ. (嘉義大學)
Employment
- Chinatrust Whales — Pitcher — (2007-2008) — Detroit Tigers — Pitcher — (2009-2010) — Adelaide Giants — Pitcher — (2013-2013) — EDA Rhinos — Pitcher — (2015-2016) — Fubon Guardians — Pitcher — (2017-2020)
Family
- Wife: 岩元理惠
Role in the Community
The corpus preserves his TAH encyclopedia entry 1752. Fu-Te Ni 倪福德 (published 2017-07-09). His entry sits in a deliberate cluster of Taiwanese professional-ballplayer records in the TAH Who’s Who — 1753. Chin-Hui Tsao 曹錦輝, 1751. Chia-Jen Lo 羅嘉仁, 1750. Tzu-Wei Lin 林子偉, and 1749. Chen Chang Lee 李振昌 — documenting the movement’s sports wing: athletes who carried Taiwanese identity onto US and international fields.
His corpus-confirmed distinction is the first Taiwanese player to successfully transition from the Chinese Professional Baseball League (中華職棒) to Major League Baseball (Detroit Tigers, 2009–2010).
HOLD: no community/corpus material beyond the press-kit biography; no oral history or memoir mentions of 倪福德 found in works/ or articles/ (re-checked 2026-09-22 — only the own encyclopedia page 1752 and the works index hit the corpus grep). Corpus re-check 2026-09-23 (deepen-x slice 09221400-18): fresh grep of works/ + articles/ returns the identical hit set — SKIP stands. Corpus re-check 2026-09-24 (deepen-x slice 09230900-14): fresh grep 倪福德/Fu-Te Ni — hit set still identical (own record + index only). SKIP stands. Corpus re-check 2026-09-25 (deepen-x slice 09240900-11): hit set unchanged (own record + index only). SKIP stands.