Most Valuable Player

...honored by government NEW YORK (Kyodo) World Series MVP Hideki Matsui received an award from the Japanese government Friday in New York for fostering goodwill and friendship between Japan and the United States. New York Consul General...

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Japan celebrates Matsui's MVP win Becomes first Japanese winner of world series honor after record-setting performance Japan nearly came to a standstill as millions watched on TV while Hideki Matsui, the man they know as Godzilla, stomped...

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...Kia Tigers NAGASAKI (Kyodo) Japan Series MVP Shinnosuke Abe highlighted a seven-run seventh inning with a go-ahead three-run homer as the Yomiuri Giants beat the Kia Tigers 9-4 in the Japan-Korea Club Championship on Saturday. Abe's shot...

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World Series: New York Yankees' Hideki Matsui becomes Japan's first MVP Hideki Matsui became the first Japanese-born player to be named World Series Most Valuable Player after hitting a record six RBIs in the deciding game to lead the New...

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...Giants in the regular season in 1996, 2000 and 2002, his last year in Japan. He also won the MVP award in the 2000 Japan Series, Japan's version of the World Series. Earning the nickname "Godzilla," Matsui hit 50 home runs in 2002. The No. 55...

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...MVPs of Japanese baseball TOKYO (AP) - Venezuelan outfielder Alex Ramirez was named MVP of Japan's Central League for the second straight year on Wednesday while pitcher Yu Darvish took the Pacific League honors. The 35-year-old Ramirez hit...

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...for most RBI's r, with the nickname Godzilla, won his first World Series ring . Hideki Matsui, also known as Godzilla, won the MVP of the 2009 World Series. Matsui, who is a baseball icon in his homeland of Japan, signed with the Yankees in...

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