Baseball: U.S. hall of fame chief Rawitch

NEW YORK, United States, Oct. 23 Kyodo - Josh Rawitch, president of the U.S. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, gives an interview in Cooperstown, New York, on Oct. 21, 2024. (Kyodo)

Baseball: U.S. hall of fame chief Rawitch

Baseball: U.S. hall of fame chief Rawitch

Josh Rawitch, president of the U.S. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, gives an interview in Cooperstown, New York, on Oct. 21, 2024.

Baseball: U.S. hall of fame chief Rawitch

Baseball: U.S. hall of fame chief Rawitch

Josh Rawitch, president of the U.S. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, gives an interview in Cooperstown, New York, on Oct. 21, 2024.

Baseball: Ex-Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui

Baseball: Ex-Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui

(From R) Former New York Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui, former Yankees star Roy White and Josh Rawitch, president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, hold artifacts to be included in an exhibition about the transpacific exchange of baseball between the United States and Japan, following a press conference announcing the event at Yankee Stadium in New York on April 21, 2024.

Hall of Fame museum in N.Y. to display collections themed on Japan-U.S. baseball exchanges

Hall of Fame museum in N.Y. to display collections themed on Japan-U.S. baseball exchanges

(from L) Josh Rawitch, president of the U.S. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel and Masanori Murakami, the first Japanese national to become a Major League Baseball player, attend a press conference at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Tokyo on April 18, 2024. Rawitch said a jersey (L) of the Los Angeles Dodgers' two-way star Shohei Ohtani will be on display during a special exhibition themed on transpacific baseball exchanges starting at the museum in Cooperstown, New York, in July 2025.