Matsui unveils charity baseball game for quake-hit kids

Matsui unveils charity baseball game for quake-hit kids

TOKYO, Japan - Retired New York Yankee Hideki Matsui announces a plan to hold a charity baseball game next March for children in the disaster-hit Tohoku region, northeastern Japan, at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2014. Retired captain Derek Jeter of the Major League Baseball club will also participate in the event.

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