By KEN MUROTA/ Staff Writer
March 3, 2021 at 07:10 JST
Tatsuki Sakamoto said he was given the baseball glove from a neighbor before meeting Rakuten Eagles players at an evacuation center in Miyagi Prefecture in 2011. “I used it for my baseball practice, so the autograph has faded pretty much,” he said. (Ken Murota)
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