Japanese baseball star Yu Darvish, now tossing fastballs for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball, is getting a museum in southern Japan.
That's pretty cool, but seems completely stupid considering he's only 26-years-old, and still has maybe 10 years of hawking the hide left in him.
But... strike while the financial kettle is hot, I suppose.
Darvish, an Oaska, Japan native, went to high school in Sendai (one of the areas affected big-time by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami). At the age of 18, he began playing pro ball for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters where he went 93-38 (wins-losses) with an ERA (earned-run-average) of 1.99. He was twice named Japan's Pacific League's MVP (most valuable player).
In 2012, Darvish played his first year (of six) in MLB, and did well, going 16-9 with a 3.90 ERA.
Like many excellent big baseball players from Japan who eventually ply their trade with MLB (Hideo Nomo (my favorite Japanese ball player!), Hideki Matsui (hated him because he played for the NY Yankees - but secretly respect him and the team), Hiroki Karuda, Hideki Irabu, Tomokazu Ohka, Takashi Saito and of course the awesome Ichiro Suzuki, to name just a few of the 43 players in total), the Japanese media loves to follow their exploits!
Of course, Ichiro Suzuki was the first Japanese ball player playing in MLB to get his own museum in Japan - run by his mom - having opened in 2002 when he was still with the Seattle Mariners of the MLB.
Cheers
Andrew Joseph
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