The New York Yankees‘ Hideki Matsui was born on June 12, 1974, in Neagari, Ishikawa, Japan. Hideki would play baseball with his brother and his friends as a young boy. Hideki was a right-hand hitter, but playing with the older kids, he had one problem, he would hit the ball so well that his embarrassed older brother demanded that he hit left-handed, or he wouldn’t let him play with them anymore. So, Hideki wanting to play, switched to hit left-handed. Little did his brother know, but eventually, Hideki would hit so well left-handed that he would be inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame forty-four years later.
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