Japanese MLB stars to be featured on manhole covers
Major League Baseball has announced that special manhole covers featuring Japanese players currently active in the professional league will be installed in their hometowns, starting next Monday.
Each manhole cover will have an illustration of a Japanese player and be located at a place associated with his roots in baseball, according to the announcement on Tuesday.
On Monday, the first three will be installed in the players' respective birthplaces in Iwate Prefecture.
The cover featuring Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani will be placed in the city of Oshu, and that with an illustration of his teammate Roki Sasaki in the city of Rikuzentakata. The cover bearing an image of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Yusei Kikuchi will appear in the prefectural capital of Morioka.
A map of Japan showing the places where special manhole covers featuring Japanese Major League Baseball players will be installed |
Major League Baseball website / via Jiji
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