Baseball players donate 29 mil. yen for victims of attacks

Baseball players donate 29 mil. yen for victims of attacks

TOKYO, Japan - Yakult Swallows catcher Atsuya Furuta, president of the Japanese professional baseball players association, hands a list of over 29 million yen in donation to the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington to Shizuo Kawakami of the Red Cross Society of Japan. The money had been contributed by the players associations of the 12 pro clubs in Japan and through Internet auctions.

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