在臺灣社會2000年開始的「臺灣之光」的現象中，不管是媒體還是 民間記憶都會回溯1968年的「紅葉精神」。這些現象反映臺灣社會對於 「第一名新聞」的熱衷，以及隱藏在國族論述下的集體記憶建構。但在 建構記憶的過程中，歷史事實卻被忽略或曲解。 本文透過當時報導，耙梳時人對紅葉少棒故事的描述，考證該故 事的最高潮1968年8月「中日少年棒球對抗賽」中形成擊敗「世界少棒 冠軍」的歷史事實，以釐清紅葉少棒成名過程。且耙梳1968年6月以降 關於「中日少年棒球對抗賽」的報導，並與美國世界少棒聯盟（Little League Baseball）的官方網站資料作檢證，討論當時社會對於此事的各 種態度。 除了從史料分析「紅葉奇蹟」的形成過程，筆者也發現在紅葉少棒 的鎂光燈下，有另外一支也來自臺東，背景和困頓都類似於紅葉少棒隊 的博愛少棒隊。這支博愛少棒有著與紅葉少棒一樣傑出的比賽成績，但 例年來曾數次惜敗於紅葉少棒。藉由回顧博愛少棒的經歷，並與佔盡媒 體報導的紅葉少棒比較，重視紅葉少棒的發展之於當時的社會，省思這 40多年來臺灣人至今依然熱衷於「第一名」的社會現象。

Since 2000, the phenomenon of“the glory of Taiwan”emerged in Taiwanese society, and media and people’s collective memory usually consider the Taiwanese little league baseball team Hongye’s legendary victory over the Japanese in 1968 as the commencement of this glory. This phenomenon reflects the enthusiasm for championship in Taiwanese society, which is also a collective memory of the nationalistic discourse of Taiwan. The construction of this collective memory involves the selection and intentional misinterpretation of the historical facts. This paper reviews Hongye’s road to its victory over the Japanese team and finds Hongye’s legend emerged from the news reporting Hongye’s poor financial condition that constrained them from participating games held in distant cities. The contrast of Hongye’s poor condition and their strong strength attracted Taiwanese people’s eyes and accumulated their fame, which brought them more financial and material supports and led them to the fabrication of the nationalistic discourse. It is a mixture of myths and facts, and this paper uses the official materials from the Little League Baseball to clarify a critical myth that Hongye defeated the world champion of 1968. This myth made Hongye the legendary figure of“the glory of Taiwan”. However, another poor team, the Poai, also experienced hard conditions as did Hongye, but they received fewer attentions and did not participated in the discourse of“glory of Taiwan”. The author believes Boai’s failure in wining the champion excludes its from the nationalistic discourse because Taiwanese society only wants the best. This paper finally criticizes this social monomania.

紅葉少棒、世界冠軍、集體記憶、臺灣之光、聯合報

Little League Baseball team Hongye, World Champion, Collective Memory, Glory of Taiwan, United Daily News