Sunday, May 05, 2013
Ex-Yankee Hideki Matsui Receives Japan People’s Honor Award
(www.businessweek.com)
I thought only industry insiders voted for The Reuben Sturman Award.
Read More...Hideki Matsui, Most Valuable Player in the 2009 World Series, and his former manager Shigeo Nagashima received Japan’s People’s Honor awards at a ceremony today in Tokyo, public broadcaster NHK reported.
Matsui set a record for Japanese players with 175 home runs in 10 Major League Baseball seasons, seven with the New York Yankees, after smashing 332 homers in 10 seasons with the Yomiuri Giants in Japan. Nagashima, who ...
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1. eddieot posted on October 29, 2012 at 01:29 PM # hit 0 | hit 0That would be awesome.
I do have to wonder why the heck MLB Network doesn't do it. I mean, show the whole thing during the morning, then maybe show a compressed version later on a tape delay. Maybe they can get something like this done when they and NPB do another one of their gentlemen's agreement things over free agency and the posting system and such.
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