By KEN MUROTA/ Staff Writer
March 3, 2021 at 07:10 JST
Tatsuki Sakamoto received a baseball bat from Motohiro Shima when the Rakuten Eagles catcher visited an evacuation center 10 years ago. Seeing the boy feeling down after he lost in a rock-paper-scissors event, the ballplayer gave him the bat, saying: “If you don’t mind one that I used.” (Provided by Tatsuki Sakamoto)
The return of pitcher Masahiro Tanaka has raised hopes in Miyagi Prefecture that the Rakuten Eagles will again rise to glory. But for one young survivor of the 2011 tsunami disaster, an earlier encounter with “Ma-kun” proved more valuable than any baseball championship. [Read More]
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