Hideki Matsui
Subtitle: sportsmanship, modesty and the art of the home run
By: by Shizuka Ijuin.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9780345495693
Subjects: Matsui, Hideki; New York Yankees (Baseball team) -- History; Baseball players -- Japan -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Table of contents: title: The arrival of a wonderful spring; title: The star, modesty included; title: A promise to his father; title: Father plays catch, mother washes the uniform; title: The contenders, Nomo and Ichiro; title: "He just did what everyone would have done"; title: A confident player; title: Postwar Japan sends its finest citizens to America; title: First stop, ground zero; title: The people who met Matsui knew he would be a star; title: To the sponsor they never met; title: Nana and Nobo; title: Wonderful teammates, manager, coaches and staff; title: I wonder about peace; title: Final chapter TK.