game used Matsui & Fukudome and auto's from Japan

[murfsteve25]

It was a pretty warm and sunny day here in Okinawa today. My son and I just got back from a roadtrip down to Naha to the Mizuno baseball shop. My plan was to just pick up a few baseballs to get signed tomorrow when we go watch some players practice. It was probably out 3rd time being in the Mizuno shop since we've been stationed here, but I dont remember ever seeing these game used bats and auto baseballs.

I saw the Matsui bat and was asking one of the workers about it. I asked him if it was game used and he said yes. Of course the language barrier played a big role in our conversation.

I also saw a Fukudome game used bat. On the sticker you see on the bat, it is labled 2005.

Another item I forgot to take a picture of was an Ichiro game used bat that was signed. I was asking about that too and the guy showed me this T-shirt. It was of Ichiro and said 9 consecutive 200 hit seasons. Underneath that, it had a list of every year he played for seattle, along with the stats for those years. He pointed to year 2003 and was trying to tell me thats the year the bat is from. Pretty cool.

Take a look at all the autographed baseballs. Only one I can make out is the Matsui autograph.