(2)Matsui departs for N.Y. to join Yankees

NARITA, Japan - Hideki Matsui shakes hands with a flight attendant Jan. 9 after receiving flowers from her aboard a plane carrying him to New York for the official signing of a three-year, $21 million free-agent deal with the New York Yankees. (Kyodo)

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