The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown is opening a new exhibit in July, called “Yakyu | Baseball: The Transpacific Exchange of the Game.” Its unveiling will go hand-in-hand with Ichiro Suzuki’s history-making induction into the Hall of Fame.
This past weekend, officials held a press conference at the Tokyo Dome to preview the installation. Josh Rawitch, president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, Masanobu Shoji, president of the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Tokyo, and Bobby Valentine, former player and manager in both MLB and NPB, all spoke.