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Major League Baseball Japan Tuesday announced a new youth tournament next year with the finals to be played in one of the cities hardest hit by Japan's 2011 quake-tsunami disaster.
The MLB Cup 2016 will start in May with the finals being played from the end of August through September in Ishinomaki city, organisers said.
"There is a beautiful stadium in the venue," said Tony LaRussa, chief baseball officer of Arizona Diamondbacks, who joined a Tokyo press conference with former team stars Randy Johnson and Luis Gonzalez.