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...chance of winning an Olympic medal in Sydney. Silver medalist to Cuba's gold in Atlanta in 1996, the Japanese team will include Matsuzaka and seven other big leaguers in these first Olympics where baseball professionals are allowed. At 19, the fastballer is now the top draw of the Seibu Lions in Japan's Pacific League. When he pitches, the 35,000-seat stadium in suburban Tokorozawa tends to fill up. Other nights, the stands are often half-empty. Matsuzaka's Lions are in a heated pennant race in a season that won't end until after the Sydney Games...
Japanese baseball was enjoying a planned, non-strike-related hiatus last week as the Yomiuri Giants and Seibu Lions prepared to meet in the Japan Series. Nevertheless, there was plenty of action off the field...
Sunday: Jubilant Seibu players give their manager the traditional bumps after destroying the Kintetsu Buffaloes 8-2. Monday: Seibu (a chain of stores, not a city) celebrates with a one-day sale. Wednesday: Giants and Dragons still neck and neck. Thursday: A heart stopper. As their pitching collapses, the Giants lose to the Yakult Swallows 6-2. One astrologer, noting the position of Mars, sees the Giants victorious in Saturday's pennant-deciding showdown with the Dragons. Saturday: Giants...
...Wednesday: Orix Blue Wave superstar Ichiro Suzuki (left), who tends bonsai in his off-hours, broke a 43-year-old record with his 192nd hit of the season (George Sisler set the U.S. record of 257 in 1920). Friday: Suzuki went hitless as the Pacific Division's first-place Seibu Lions beat the second-place Orix 6-1, moving four games ahead. Rain -- not a labor dispute -- canceled besuboru's other Friday games...
...brothers do seem to see their futures in the same arena: the rapidly expanding leisure industry. Seiji's Seibu Saison Group is branching out into hotels and what he calls the "comprehensive life-style" business. He wants customers at his stores to be able to buy a traveling bag, put it to use by booking a package tour, and take out a loan to pay for the journey. Yoshiaki has his own growth plans: he is looking at the expanding market in cable television and optical-fiber communications, in addition to more familiar resort-development projects at home and abroad...