HIDEKI MATSI is not yet decided if he would stay in NY Yankees. Today, Japanese news said that Matsui’s memorial stamp would be published soon.
This is because he got the MVP all through the Major league baseball’s world series.
I also agree that he is a hero of recent Japan, actually when he was a member of Yomiuri Giants or Tokyo Giants, I got excited to see his home runs. Whenever he appears in the batter’s box, we expected his home run.
That was a very rare excitement I had when seeing baseball games. I’ve never experienced such excitement except SADAHARU OH.
Bu why does he become memorial stamp ? Even Sadaharu Oh or Shigeo Nagashima was not treated such. In addition, why does Japanese postal company need to publish it for American prize ? Is American MVP such great thing for us Japanese baseball fans ? I don’t understand well.
At least, this project seems to mean the postal company’s sales promotion. Japanese postalcompany used to be a goverment owned one, but it’s already privatized and they need money in hand. I suppose so.
But if memorial stamps would be published like this pace in the future, maybe the value of the stamps will be reduced. Memorial stamp is important when we all think it’s precious, but when it’s for promotional purpose of postal company, we will soon notice it and the value will be less and less.
