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...meantime, the hemorrhaging will continue. Last month, Yakult Swallows' 27-year-old ace pitcher Kazuhisa Ishii became the latest star to declare his intention to go to the U.S. Even more startling was the recent decision by Giants slugger (and the Central League's most valuable player in 2000) Hideki Matsui to turn down an eight-year offer reportedly worth $50 million. Had Matsui signed, it would have been the most lucrative deal in the history of Japanese baseball. His refusal shocked team officials and fueled speculation that the superstar outfielder, who becomes eligible for free agency...
...Hideki Hattori is 23 years old, out of college and starting on his own at the worst possible time. He is wearing a navy-blue porkpie hat pulled down to his eyebrows, a plaid shirt by a niche fashion house called Hysteric Glamour, baggy pants, a chain of oversize dice hanging from his waist and silver rings on his fingers. Being a deejay would be kind of cool, he says, but he likes graphic design too. And then he met this salesman who tried to import beetles from Indonesia, and that sounded promising?except all the beetles died while waiting...
...Alan J. Heege (United States), Alan G. MacDiarmid (United States), Hideki Shirakawa (Japan...
Yankees 9, Royals 8 KANSAS CITY, Mo.-If Hideki Irabu is going to pitch like this, Rodger Clemens had better get well in a hurry...
...Yankees won their championship on Wednesday night, awkwardly called them "a great team team." They were. Every single player contributed, big time. While most good teams have three solid starting pitchers and a rotating journeyman, the Yankees had six great starters: David Wells, David Cone, Andy Pettitte, Orlando Hernandez, Hideki Irabu and Ramiro Mendoza. Their bench could have beaten other teams. The Yankees, in contrast to the attention-grabbing McGwire-Sosa home run race, got wins and bad Nielsen ratings by playing "small ball": by massaging the first run over the plate, and then another and another. Batters patiently waited...