Star players plant trees for baseball bats in Hokkaido forest

TOMAKOMAI, Japan - Lotte Marines second baseman Tadahito Iguchi plants a seedling of the ''aodamo'' ash tree during an annual green event in a forest in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, on July 23.

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