松井秀喜さんら日米企画展ＰＲ　米野球殿堂、来夏に開催

　【ニューヨーク時事】米野球殿堂博物館（ニューヨーク州クーパーズタウン）で来年７月に開催される企画展「野球とベースボール　太平洋を越えた日米の野球交流」の発表記者会見が２１日、ニューヨークのヤンキースタジアムで行われ、ともに米大リーグのヤンキースとプロ野球巨人で活躍した、松井秀喜さんとロイ・ホワイトさんが出席した。
　松井さんは、「日本の選手がメジャーで活躍するのは普通の光景になった。日米の野球がますます発展していくことを願っている」とあいさつ。ホワイトさんは巨人時代に王貞治さんらとプレーした思い出を語り、「日本の文化や伝統を学べたことは素晴らしい経験」と話した。
　企画展ではドジャースの大谷翔平選手や、日本人初の大リーガーとなった村上雅則さんの用具などを展示する。
　来年はマリナーズなどで活躍したイチローさんの殿堂入りが確実視されている。（2024/04/22-09:57）

Former Japanese baseball star Hideki Matsui, who played in the U.S. major league and Japanese professional baseball, on Sunday promoted an upcoming Japan-U.S. exhibition at the U.S. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
   It has become commonplace for Japanese players to join and play for major league teams, Matsui told a press conference at Yankee Stadium in New York, expressing his hope that Japanese and U.S. baseball will flourish further.
   Matsui started his professional career at the Yomiuri Giants, a team in the Central League of the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization, or NPB, after playing for the baseball club at Seiryo Senior High School in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan. He then moved to the United States and played for the New York Yankees and other Major League Baseball teams.
   The press conference was attended by Roy White, who also played for the Yankees and the Giants. Touching on his memories of playing for the Giants with Sadaharu Oh, a baseball legend who hit 868 home runs during his professional career, White said that learning about Japanese culture and traditions was a wonderful experience.
   Starting in July 2025, the exhibition, "Yakyu/Baseball: The Transpacific Exchange of the Game between Japan and the United States," at the museum in Cooperstown in the state of New York will showcase items such as those related to Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani and Masanori Murakami, a pitcher who became the first Japanese to play for a major league team in 1964.